The James Webb Space Telescope has for the first time peered inside a planet-forming disk of dust surrounding a nearby star, a development promising to supercharge the search for exoplanets.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope 's near-infrared camera ( NIRCam ), a team of astronomers led by Kellen Lawson, a postdoctoral program fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, observed the surroundings of a red dwarf star known as AU Microscopii or AU Mic.
Newfound alien planet has nuclear fusion going in its core
An international team of scientists has found a new exoplanet that's the first to be directly imaged thanks to Europe's Gaia spacecraft — and it appears to have nuclear fusion ongoing in its core.
The team, led by Professor Sasha Hinkley at the University of Exeter in England, discovered the exoplanet orbiting roughly 300 million miles (483 million kilometers) away from the star HD 206893, which is located about 130 light-years from Earth and is about 30% larger than our sun.
NASA's James Webb Space telescope has already changed so much, imagine what we will know in next few decades. https://t.co/VYUZ7wDzAf MAstronomers (from Milky Way) Fri Jan 20 18:40:30 +0000 2023
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken pictures of a debris disc around a nearby star in unprecedented detail https://t.co/Hm4VqcvxZX newscientist (from Worldwide) Fri Jan 20 05:34:20 +0000 2023
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted bright galaxies deeper in the universe's past than expected. The finding… https://t.co/qtPD08VAQb QuantaMagazine Fri Jan 20 15:53:44 +0000 2023
James Webb Space Telescope's ground-breaking study of a planet-forming disk hints at future exoplanet discoveries… https://t.co/reU8VXeyYn SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Fri Jan 20 20:03:01 +0000 2023
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