NASA releases image of first exoplanet taken by James Webb
September 3, 2022
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OUR NASA released last Thursday, September 1, first image exoplanet photographed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The most advanced space telescope created by mankind took a
OUR NASA released last Thursday, September 1, first image exoplanet photographed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The most advanced space telescope created by mankind took a “photo” HIP 65426 ba exoplanet like Super Jupiter with a mass 12 times greater than that of our gas giant. O HIP 65426 b is located at a distance of 385 light years from Earth and is located in the constellation Centaurus.
See the comparison between the first image
taken from Jupiter and most recent
HIP 65426 b is the first exoplanet discovered by James Webb.
O James Webb Space Telescope recorded the image exoplanet HIP 65426 B through four different ranges of infrared light. As you can see below, the first square highlighted in purple in the photo shows exoplanet through NIRKam (near infrared instrument) in the range of 3.00 micrometers (µm); in sequence NIRKam shows in blue a celestial body in the range of 4.44 µm. From the third square we have the records made by the device MIRI (mid-infrared instrument), which use wider bands. The yellow and red squares show captures at 11.4 µm and 15.5 µm, respectively.
In the squares, you will also notice a five-pointed star icon. The icon represents the location of the star THIGH 65426 in the picture – the star was taken when captured by instruments James Webb to avoid tampering with records.
O exoplanet HIP 65426 b presents some features. In addition to its mass of 12 times that of Jupiter, the planet orbits its star at a gigantic distance of 92 astronomical units (AU). Each a.u. equal to the distance from the earth to the sun. In the image below, recorded by the device SPHERE from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) we have a comparison between Neptune’s orbit on the Sun and the orbit HIP 65426 b. The circle shows what the distance along the orbit of Neptune would be in THIGH 65426, with a cross in the center of the circle representing the star. The red dot in the lower left corner is exoplanet.
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