NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.
For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...
Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...
Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...
The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.
The James Webb Space Telescope captures the first direct images of carbon dioxide in a distant planetary system, HR 8799, ...