Webb takes its first image of an Exoplanet

This new image shows Exoplanet HIP 65426 b which is a big Jupiter type planet , when I say big it's about six to eight times the mass of Jupiter and lives about 1,150 light-years from Earth.

The Star placed on the pictures denotes where the Planets parent Star is , the 4 different images were taken at different wave lengths.

In each filter image, the planet appears as a slightly differently shaped blob of light. That is because of the particulars of Webb’s optical system and how it translates light through the different optics.
Purple shows the NIRCam instrument’s view at 3.00 micrometres, blue shows the NIRCam instrument’s view at 4.44 micrometres,
yellow shows the MIRI instrument’s view at 11.4 micrometres,
and red shows the MIRI instrument’s view at 15.5 micrometres.
These images look different because of the ways that the different Webb instruments capture light.

Researchers have been analysing the data from these observations and are preparing a paper they will submit to journals for peer review. But Webb's first capture of an exoplanet already hints at future possibilities for studying distant worlds.

Since HIP 65426 b is about 100 times farther from its host star than Earth is from the Sun, it is sufficiently distant from the star that Webb can easily separate the planet from the star in the image.
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Astronomers say the Planet is only about 15 to 20 million years old so Webb's first Exoplanet is of a new born ... Ahhhhh , isn't he / she cute....and Big!

a reply to: gortex
Nice. Thank you for sharing this!

I’m sure there has to be a reason, but why wouldn’t they take their first shot at the closest star in the goldilock zone?

a reply to: Middleoftheroad

Probably because the light from the star would obscure the planet , the planet in the image is 100 times further from it's Star than we are from ours.

originally posted by: Middleoftheroad
I’m sure there has to be a reason, but why wouldn’t they take their first shot at the closest star in the goldilock zone?

Same, was hoping they would focus their attention on those planets that might harbor life.

They have spoken loud about how JWT would be able to detect traces of life from light of these things.

a reply to: gortex
That is awsesome-the scope is off to a great start.
Sounds like some type of gas giant judging by the size?
I guess it will take some fine tuning/focusing before they can look for planets in the near goldilocks zone of systems.

BTW did you see this one of the star with infrared pulses which make a dune/waveform pattern in space?
Also taken by the JWST-

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Each new "ring" of dust is created every 8 years when the star pulses infrared,a new ring of dust is sent outward from the star.
It reminded me of those Cymatics vids of certain audio tones creating different waveform patterns but this one is around a whole star and uses light radiation to make the pattern.

Wow.

An actual real planet in another star system!

Amazing stuff!

Thank you for sharing. I actually said wow out loud on the bus .

a reply to: Spacespider

They have spoken loud about how JWT would be able to detect traces of life from light of these things.

Webb has the Trappist-1 system as an early target so hopefully we will be sniffing some atmosphere's soon.

originally posted by: gortex
when I say big it's about six to eight times the mass of Jupiter

What's interesting is that exoplanets that are more massive than Jupiter aren't much larger in size. All that extra mass creates stronger gravity, which makes the planet denser. In fact, brown dwarfs, which are 13 - 80 times the mass of Jupiter, are of the similar size as well, some are even smaller than Jupiter.