James Webb telescope captures direct images of Saturn-sized exoplanet

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.