The star itself has been removed from the picture during processing to enhance the view of the faint exoplanet and its position is marked. The exoplanet appears at the lower left. The blue circle is the size of the orbit of Neptune in the Solar System. The star HD 95086 has similar ...
“Direct detection is when you can actually take a picture of something,” said Don McCarthy, distinguished professor ofastronomyat the University of Arizona. McCarthy is an astronomer at the university’s Steward Observatory, and he helped design Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) — the d...
Beta Pictoris b is a gas giant similar in size to Jupiter, though its star is much younger than ours—just 12 million years old. The picture of it was created with an exposure of just one minute, which is a record for an image of an exoplanet—the planet orbits its star just a li...
Astrolábos is too far away from us and too close to its star for any of our telescopes to get a direct picture of it. What these telescopes can do, though, is observe the system — the star and the planet together — ...
giant worlds, with results expected in the coming months that will help piece together an almost complete picture of the atmospheric composition of gas giants like these. "That's the power of James Webb," said Jacob Bean, an astronomer at the University of Chicago and the team's co-leader...
“In the past two years, the space telescope CHEOPS which has been developed and built at the University of Bern, has been key in solving several questions that astrophysicists had about 55 Cancri e. JWST complemented this picture at infrared wavelengths in showing that the super-Earth 55 ...
The resulting comparisons present a picture of the performance and complexity tradeoffs among several imaging system architectures. The positive conclusion of this work is that, thanks to advances in optoelectronics and signal processing, there exist a number of promising system design alternatives for ...
Did you ever want to see an alien world? A planet orbiting a distant star, light years from the Sun? Well, theJames Webb Space Telescope (JWST)has just returned its first-ever picture of just that � a planet orbiting a distant star. ...
“Imaging provides information about the planet’s luminosity, temperature, atmosphere, and orbit, but because planets are so faint and so close to their host stars, it’s like trying to take a picture of a firefly near a searchlight,” explained Masayuki Kuzuhara at the Tokyo Institut...
Lower panel: Same picture, but for the GMTNIRS cryostat. The spectrographs in the J, H and K bands are indicated as three light-blue boxes above the optical bench. The L spectrograph is located on the top of the bench (red box), while the M band spectrograph is right under the L ...