James Webb Telescope Just Detected a FULLY Habitable Planet

Webb found strong evidence of a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A — our nearest solar twin, just 4 light-years away — then the planet seemed to disappear, sending astronomers into millions of simulated orbits to work out how it could have slipped from view.

On one night in August 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope recorded a faint point of mid-infrared light beside Alpha Centauri A. The source was more than 10,000 times fainter than the star and appeared about 1.5 arcseconds away, equivalent to a projected separation near two times the Earth-Sun distance. There were good reasons to take it seriously. Tests made a passing asteroid, a distant background object and familiar image-processing artifact…

James Webb Telescope Just Detected a FULLY Habitable Planet

James Webb Telescope Just Detected a FULLY Habitable PlanetFar beyond the familiar stars of our night sky, in a quiet region of the constellation Leo, a faint change in infrared light reached Earth after traveling for more than a century through the darkness of space. At first glance, it looked like just another dataset, one more stream of numbers among trillions collected by humanity’s most powerful telescope. Credit to : Beyond The Stars