Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of specialized instruments, allows it to detect very faint emissions coming from ...

HR 8799 e at 4.6 micrometers and 51 Eridani b at 4.1 micrometers wavelength. The observations highlight the telescope’s ...

Webb’s data shows that HR 8799’s four gas giants likely formed via core accretion, the same process that shaped Jupiter and Saturn in our solar system. Webb detected carbon dioxide and carbon ...

The clearest look in the infrared yet at the iconic multi-planet system HR 8799. Colors are applied to filters from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera). A star symbol marks the location of the ...

The observations also revealed the first-ever detection of the innermost planet, HR 8799 e, at a wavelength of 4.6 ...

The farthest planet, HR 8799 b, orbits 6.3 billion miles away, more than twice Neptune’s distance from the Sun. Apart from this, Webb also studied planets in another system, 51 Eridani ...