The James Webb Space Telescope, which was launched in the space in 2021, has a young gas giant exoplanet, which is about the size of Saturn, directly, almost 110 light -years from the Earth in the Constellation Antlia, reports the news agency Reuters, which calls official researchers of the development. According to the report, this is the first time that the deep spacecraft has discovered an alien exoplanet that has not previously been documented by humans. The discovery of Webb Telescope Since the launch of the telescope in 2021, the high-tech space equipment has collected valuable data on various already known planets outside our solar system and early universe data. Scientists call these distant planets exoplanets. The Webb telescope is a very capable piece of spacecraft that can see distant planets in terms of light years. The new alien exoplanet is located nearly 110 light years from Earth, where every light year, the distance a ray of light has traveled in a year, is 9.5 billion kilometers, according to the agency report. Most of the 5.900 exoplanets discovered since the 1990s were detected by indirect methods, such as the transit method, which observes the slight fad of a star’s light as a planet passes before it. The news release also emphasized that less than 2 percent of the earlier exoplanets were taken directly, such as the current finding of the WebB telescope. The plant was found using a French-made chronograph, a device used to block the bright light of a star, equipped on the WebB telescope’s mid-infrared instrument (MIRI). About the new exoplanet, the new exoplanet, which is about the size of Saturn, is the host named Twa 7 at a distance of 52 times greater than the Earth’s orbital distance around the sun, according to the agency report. “Webb opens a new window – in terms of mass and the distance from a planet to the star – from exoplanets that have so far not been accessible to observations. It is important to investigate the variety of exoplanetary systems and understand how they shape and develop,” the astronomer Anne -Marie Lagrange, quoted by the news agency. Lagrange also emphasized how the indirect methods provide incredible information for planets near their stars. However, the imaging is needed to detect and characterize planets that are further away in space. According to the agency report, the star and planet found in the research are virtually newborns with about 6 million years old, compared to our solar system, which is 4.5 billion years old. However, the report also emphasized that the researchers do not yet know the composition of the atmosphere of the exoplanet, looking forward to the future findings of the WebB telescope to determine an answer. “When I see forward, I hope that the projects of direct imaging of vein -like planets and search for possible signs of life will become a reality,” says Lagrange, as cited in the news agency report.
Webb telescope discovers its first alien exoplanet. Here’s what we know | Mint
