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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 ...
Webb's First Deep Field was taken by the telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and is a composite produced from images at different wavelengths, totalling 12.5 hours of exposure time. [3] [4] SMACS 0723 is a galaxy cluster visible from Earth's Southern Hemisphere , [5] and has often been examined by Hubble and other telescopes in search of ...
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).
LHS 475 b is a terrestrial planet orbiting the star LHS 475 which is about 40.7 light years away, in the constellation of Octans. [2] [3] It was the first extrasolar planet to be confirmed by the James Webb Space Telescope. [4] It completes an orbit every 2 days and is 99% the diameter of Earth. It is also one of the most similar-to-Earth ...
Engineers commanded the James Webb Space Telescope to unfurl its over 21-foot wide golden mirrors this week, and the crucial test succeeded. The test, shown in the image below, was the last check ...
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 ...
The rocky worlds of the TRAPPIST solar system have captivated scientists.Until recently, these Earth-sized planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have remained largely mysterious.
The telescope will orbit Earth’s second Lagrange point, which is nearly 1 million miles from Earth or four times farther into space than the moon. There, the satellite can be balanced by the ...