NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of a planet outside of our solar system, which is the first time it has accomplished such a feat. This is a very big deal because exoplanets don’t put out much light, so researchers typically discover new planets through indirect methods like keeping track of shadows as they pass across a host star.
Webb, however, didn’t have to do all that. It has directly captured images of a planet called TWA 7 b. Scientists believe
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