All other apparent objects in the image are either stars or galaxies in the background, or false positives. Apart from offering unequivocal proof of the existence of a planet, such direct imaging ...

Researchers using James Webb, however, have evidence of what appears to be two giant exoplanets orbiting white dwarfs. They took direct images using Webb’s MIRI instrument, which was sensitive ...

This image of the gas-giant exoplanet Epsilon Indi Ab was taken with the coronagraph on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument). A star symbol marks the location of ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — For the first time, astronomers have taken a direct look at an exoplanet’s insides. An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new ...

Direct imaging of exoplanets is a key technique ... Researchers can also only directly image exoplanets at "partial phases," ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has caught the first-ever direct image of two planets ... planets outside the solar system. Exoplanets are shy Exoplanets — planets ...