JWST directly photographs 4 gas giant exoplanets 130 light-years away. It also detected they’re rich in carbon dioxide gas, so they formed much like Jupiter and Saturn.
NASA’s Webb Images Young, Giant Exoplanets, Detects Carbon Dioxide
JWST directly photographs 4 gas giant exoplanets 130 light-years away. It also detected they’re rich in carbon dioxide gas, so they formed much like Jupiter and Saturn.
NASA’s Webb Images Young, Giant Exoplanets, Detects Carbon Dioxide
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I was disappointed to discover that 51 Eridani was not the 40 Eridani star from Andy Weir’s Hail Mary …
JWST has been doing world-class science but going to need to do photos that are at least on par with Hubble’s because the public engagement for a $10B space telescope has been severely lacking. It can’t even keep up with a neutered Hubble, budget-wise, nowadays. Sadly because it is infrared only it can’t do that. If they could have built numerous Hubbles they would have already done it. Hubble is like 5 separately launched Discovery class missions in one and add up the 5 or 6 other instruments that used to be on Hubble it has been a 35 year program with ~12 Discovery class missions or 5-6 New Frontiers class missions.