James Webb telescope captures direct images of Saturn-sized exoplanet
by Hannah Devlin Science correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#6Y7JM)
TWA 7b is 110 light years away and by far the smallest-mass planet to be observed by direct imagery
The James Webb space telescope has captured unprecedented direct images of a planet beyond our own solar system, in its first exoplanet discovery.
The observations reveal a planet, which has been called TWA 7b, carving its way through a disc of glowing dust and rocky debris in orbit around a star 110 light years from Earth.
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