Picture of planet outside solar system

What was the first direct image of a planet outside our Solar System?

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was able to capture the first direct image of a planet located outside of our solar system. James Webb Space Telescope Located 355 light-years from Earth, the exoplanet is about six to twelve times the mass of Jupiter, according to NASA.

Can astronomers see a planet outside our Solar System?

For the first time, astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The exoplanet is a gas giant, meaning it has no rocky surface and could not be habitable.

Can a planet beyond our Solar System support alien life?

NASA NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of a planet beyond our solar system. The planet, called HIP 65426 b, is a gas giant with no rocky surface, which means it likely cannot support alien life, according to astronomers who described the images in a NASA blog post published Thursday.

Did astronomers capture the first direct image of an exoplanet?

Astronomers have captured the first direct image of an exoplanet with the James Webb Space Telescope. The exoplanet, or planet outside of our solar system, is a gas giant about six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter.

Are Webb's images a direct image of exoplanets?

Webb’s images are not the first direct images of exoplanets: the Hubble Space Telescope has managed to take pictures of other alien worlds, but it is not easy — the intense brightness of a planet’s nearby star can hide the light coming from that exoplanet. The HIP 65426 b, for instance, is 10,000 times less bright than its star.

Can the Webb Telescope find habitable planets?

The observations hint at how the Webb telescope could be used to search for potentially habitable planets elsewhere in the universe. The exoplanet HIP 65426 b in different bands of infrared light, as seen from the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA