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 c and HR 8799 d sit somewhere in the middle. Both are gas giants with 7 times Jupiter's mass, and while a year on HR 8799 c takes about 200 Earth years, HR 8799 d's year is closer to 110 ...

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 ...

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 ...

William Balmer, a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University ... capturing innovative coronagraphic images of exoplanets in HR 8799 and 51 Eridani — and they did so by using the JWST's ...