The Webb telescope has released its very first exoplanet image – here's what we can learn from it
- Written by: Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
NASA/ESA/CSA, A Carter (UCSC), the ERS 1386 team, and A. Pagan (STScI)Did you ever want to see an alien world? A planet orbiting a distant star, light years from the Sun? Well, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just returned its first-ever picture of just that – a planet orbiting a distant star.
The new images reveal JWST will be a...