Washington: The Webb telescope of the American space organization National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has got a big success. The Webb telescope has detected and photographed a planet larger than Jupiter outside the Solar System. Pictures of this exoplanet have also been taken and sent to Earth. Exoplanets are planets that orbit the Sun or any other stars outside the Solar System. These pictures are being seen all over the world.
It has been told in the information that the world’s most powerful spacecraft has observed this newly detected planet in four different light filters. The mass of the newly discovered planet is about 12 times the mass of Jupiter. It is a gaseous planet and rock has not been found here. There is no life on this planet. NASA has said that the new planet has been named HIP 65426 b. For the first time, direct pictures have been taken of it. Although the number of exoplanets has exceeded 5000.
Learn more about exoplanets than ever before
Releasing a picture of the newly discovered exoplanet, NASA has said that the spacecraft’s capability will reveal more information about the exoplanet than ever before. It can easily see distant planets from the solar system and gives information about the path of future observations. Different pictures are expected from the Webb telescope. The web has started sending new pictures from the 12th of last month. It was launched on December 25 last year. It is operated jointly by NASA, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
The new planet is filled with gas, with no rocks
NASA has told that the only information about the new planet is that it is a huge reservoir of gas, that is, there is no rocky surface on it. It cannot be impossible to live here. Dubbed HIP 65426 b, the planet is about 12 times the mass of Jupiter and is about 15 to 20 million years older than our 4.5 billion-year-old Earth. The planet was first observed in 2017 using the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
