Scientists create 1st-ever 3-dimensional map of world outside Earth’s solar system

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiter planets is now the first planet outside Earth’s solar system to be mapped in three dimension, a team of astronomers says.

Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a group of international researchers were able to piece together a 3D map of an exoplanet known as WASP-18 b. The breakthrough creation marks a major first in planetary science, as a three-dimensional model of a planet orbiting another star beyond our sun had never before existed, the team claimed in a press release.

What’s more, the researchers are hoping their technique can be used to better observe many others of the more than 6,000 exoplanets so far discovered in the cosmos.

But is it a good map? Like can I rescue a stranded matt damon with it?