Webb telescope spots infant planets in different stages of development

Unveiling Newborn Giants: Webb Telescope's Groundbreaking Observations | Science-Environment

The James Webb Space Telescope has made groundbreaking observations of two giant exoplanets at different stages of formation orbiting a young sun-like star. These discoveries shed light on the complex nature of planetary system development, challenging existing knowledge and theories about how planets and their systems form.

Webb telescope took a direct image of two exoplanets. See it now.

Scientists have scored a pristine view of a pair of exotic worlds orbiting a star more than 300 light-years away — one with sand-like clouds and another surrounded in space by moon-making material. The discoveries come from YSES-1, a star system in the deep southern sky. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, a team of astronomers saw so-called "silicate clouds" directly for the …

Webb Shows Another Jupiter Forming in Real Time

Astronomers have used JWST to study a fascinating planetary system that's only 16.7 million years old, with two bizarre giant exoplanets. Designated YSES-1, its closer planet, YSES-1b seems to be surrounded by a disk of material that could be the birthplace of moons, similar to what might have happened at Jupiter billions of years ago. The other, YSES-1c, has a layer of silicate particles in its upper atmosphere—clouds of sand.

Webb telescope spots infant planets in different stages of development