See Webb Telescope’s First Images of an Exoplanet
There it is, in four different bands of the infrared spectrum: the gas giant HIP 65426b, the first exoplanet directly imaged by the Webb Space Telescope.“Obtaining this image felt like digging for space treasure,” said Aarynn Carter, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who led the analysis of the images, in a NASA release. “At first all I could see was light from the star, but with careful image processing I was able to remove that light and uncover the planet.”While these are the first direct…