“It appears to pass the observational tests for being a very low mass companion to its parent star,” says Ray Jayawardhana, an expert in planet formation at the University of Toronto, Canada, who was not involved in the study. “Now that we have a direct image, it’s possible to st...
The article reports that the Hubble Space Telescope's NICMOS camera has likely made the first direct image of an extrasolar planet. The candidate object lies close to a young brown dwarf 225 light-years away in Hydra--but a small uncertainty remains that...
used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to capture the first direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The image, shown through four different light filters, demonstrates how the telescope’s infrared capabilities can lead the way to observations that will reveal more information than ...
Astronomers have revealed the first photograph of an exoplanet taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The image shows the bright blob of a world seven times heavier than Jupiter that orbits a star nearly 400 light-years away. The groundbreaking result is the latest in a slew of...
Spot the exoplanet Two teams comprising researchers from Canada, the US and the UK have taken what appear to be the first “bona fide” direct images of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, an achievement that has long been considered vital in the search for planets like our own...
direct measurements.” The researchers took advantage of supercomputer simulations of the Universe run at MPA to calculate predictions of the expected filamentary emission given the current cosmological model. “When comparing to the novel high-definition image of the cosmic web, we find substantial ...
Since the planet is around 100 times further away from its host star than Earth is from the Sun, the telescope can easily separate it from the star in the image.Although this is not the first direct image of an exoplanet taken from space, as the Hubble Space Telescope has taken direct ...
Seeing the light: An artist's impression of 51 Pegasi b The first-ever direct detection of the spectrum of visible light reflected from an exoplanet has been made by an international team of astronomers. Using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument at the ...
from our Sun. The new ESO’s VLT image is the first direct image of more than oneexoplanetaround a Sun-like star. ESO’s VLT was also the first telescope to directly image an exoplanet, back in 2004, when it captured a speck of light around a brown dwarf, a type of ‘fa...
(NIRCam) on the left, while the image from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the right shows for the first time that the second star is surrounded by dust. The brighter star is in an earlier stage of its stellar evolution and will probably eject its own planetary nebula in the...