Currently, this list includes both directly imaged planets and imaged planetary-mass companions (objects that orbit a star but formed through a binary-star-formation process, not a planet …

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Sep 2, 2022 · Along with spying its first exoplanet, the James Webb telescope got its first direct spectrum of an object orbiting a star in another solar system.

Dec 12, 2023 · But 15 years ago this fall, the star system Beta Pictoris yielded one of the most iconic pictures in astrophysics: a direct image of a planet orbiting another star. The young, …

Oct 29, 2024 · In this image, JWST captures its first-ever image of an exoplanet, or a planet outside our solar system. The planet, named HIP 65426 b, is a gas giant up to 8 times more …

Sep 19, 2023 · WASP-18b is an exoplanet located 325 light-years from Earth. The planet's mass is 10 times that of Jupiter, and it... With an estimated temperature of just 50K, OGLE-2005 …

Oct 25, 2024 · This composite image shows an exoplanet (the red spot on the lower left), orbiting the brown dwarf 2M1207 (center). 2M1207 b is the first exoplanet directly imaged and the first …

Jul 24, 2024 · An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged an exoplanet roughly 12 light-years from Earth. The planet, Epsilon Indi …

May 12, 2014 · The few real images we have of exoplanets don’t yet contain those fantastic details: There are no clouds, no continents, no shimmering alien oceans.

Jan 1, 2000 · Artist's illustrations of exoplanets, NASA exoplanet missions, and detection methods. Includes animations and stills. Visualizations of exoplanets and models. Based on …