Many exoplanets are too close to their parent stars for even this powerful telescope to distinguish them. But we can use the trick of watching as the planet passes in front of (transits) its star.
Gases within the atmosphere absorb some of the light—leaving fingerprints on the starlight in the form of a reduction in brightness at certain colors, or wavelengths. JWST is particularly suited to exoplanet atmosphere studies because it is an infrared telescope.
Scientists make unprecedented detection on a planet 700 light-years away
The powerful Webb telescope doesn't need to take pretty pictures to revolutionize our grasp of the cosmos.
Astronomers focused the space observatory — which successfully reached its outpost one million miles from Earth this year — on the Saturn-like exoplanet ( meaning planet beyond our solar system ) WASP-39 b. It's a hot, gas giant closely orbiting a star 700 light-years away.
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