Exoplanets are rarely seen in images.
took images of the HIP 65426 b using short infrared wavelengths of light. The image today is taken in mid-infrared light. It reveals much more detail than the ground-based telescopes at the VLT campus. This is due to the intrinsic infrared glow of the Earth's atmosphere.
Researchers from the NASA/ESA/CSA cooperative are preparing a paper of their observations, which will be submitted to journals for peer review. The fact that these detailed imagesso well is already leading to future possibilities for studying distant worlds. One of the concerns researchers had was making certain there was a star associated with the large gas giant, proving it was indeed an exoplanet and not a dwarf star. The images from the Webb telescope show HIP 65426 b is sufficiently close to a star to be in its orbit and is about 100 times further from that star than Earth is from our own star. The distance from HIP 65426 b to its sun is also sufficient to distinctly separate the two in the image.
has captured exoplanet images. The images of HIP 65426 b are leading the way to Webb's exploration of exoplanets.appears as a blob of light. This is a particular way the James Webb Telescope optical systems translate light through the different optical formats. The purple shows the NIRCam instruments view at 3.00 micrometers, and the blue shows the NIRCam instruments view at 4.44 micrometers. The yellow images show the mid-infrared instrument's view at 11.
The image set observations were led with an enormous collaboration by Sasha Hinkley, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
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