The images feature HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years from Earth.
The teams analysis of the Webb imagery waspublishedtoday in The Astrophysical Journal.
Given what we know about the star they orbit, that likely indicates they formed via core accretion.
An infrared image of the HR 8799 system.Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, W. Balmer (JHU), L. Pueyo (STScI), M. Perrin (STScI)
(Our own solar system is about 4.6 billion years old).
In 2022, the Webb telescopedetectedunequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called WASP-39b.
Webb is revolutionizing the astrophysical discoveries scientists can make peering into deep space.
Illustration:Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
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