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WASP-96b. WASP-96b is a gas giant exoplanet. Its mass is 0.48 times that of Jupiter. It is 0.0453 AU from the class G star WASP-96, which it orbits every 3.4 days. It is about 1,140 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered in 2013 by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP).
Webb operates in a halo orbit, circling around a point in space known as the Sun–Earth L 2 Lagrange point, approximately 1,500,000 km (930,000 mi) beyond Earth's orbit around the Sun. Its actual position varies between about 250,000 and 832,000 km (155,000–517,000 mi) from L 2 as it orbits, keeping it out of both Earth and Moon's shadow.
The hunt for an Earth-like planet shielded with a protective atmosphere has so far eluded scientists, but a new detection by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the first. Astronomers are ...
Scientists have spotted a strange new world.It's almost exactly the size of Earth. It's rocky. It's relatively close (41 light-years away). And, for the first time, astronomers used the most ...
Study marks first detection of any form of light emitted by an exoplanet as small as rocky planets in our own solar system
NASA launches exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS. Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ( TESS) is a space telescope for NASA 's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission. [6] It was launched on 18 April 2018, atop a Falcon 9 launch vehicle and ...
Researchers used Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, to take a series of images of Jupiter 10 hours apart, applying four different filters to detect changes in the planet’s atmosphere.
The Kepler space telescope is a defunct space telescope launched by NASA in 2009 [5] to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. [6] [7] Named after astronomer Johannes Kepler, [8] the spacecraft was launched into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit. The principal investigator was William J. Borucki.