The James Webb #telescope is getting glimpses of small, far-off #planets.

One of the smaller planets that #JWST looked at is GJ 1214b, which has frustrated astronomers since its discovery in 2009.

The #planet is a sub-Neptune, meaning its size is somewhere between that of a rocky world like Earth and a gaseous one like #Neptune.

#astronomy #exoplanets
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/james-webb-telescope-small-far-planets-space

JWST Reveals Previously Shrouded Newborn Stars

https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/webb-space-telescope-reveals-previously-shrouded-newborn-stars

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#astronomy #space #science #news #stargazing #NASA #JWST #ESA #STScI #CSA

Image: NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI

“It’s like finding buried treasure.”

A deep dive into one of #NASAWebb’s iconic first images—the Cosmic Cliffs—has revealed a treasure trove of extremely young stars in a particularly intriguing stage of formation: https://webbtelescope.pub/3Btx3oE

#STScI #JWST #CosmicCliffs

Look at all of these adorable galaxies in this image from the #JWST Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science (PEARLS) team!

We are seeing thousands of galaxies over an enormous range in distance, some not previously detected by Hubble or the largest ground-based telescopes. Light from the most distant galaxies in the image traveled almost 13.5 billion years to reach us.

More: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/early-highlights/webb-glimpses-field-of-extragalactic-pearls-studded-with-galactic-diamonds
#Astronomy #DeepField #Astrodon

Next #SETILive: JWST Reveals Atmosphere
Thursday, Dec 15, 10:00AM PST

Host Beth Johnson will talk to four of the lead authors of our recent #JWST exoplanet studies. Tune in to hear about the science straight from the source!

WATCH LIVE: https://buff.ly/3ByQAUP