Thanks to Webb’s telescope, we have the first photo of an exoplanet!

Webb’s telescope continues to amaze. This time it managed to photograph an exoplanet for the first time ever. It is probably a gas giant orbiting a star 350 light years away from us.

[Photo credit: NASA/ESA/CSA, A Carter (UCSC), the ERS 1386 team, and A. Pagan (STScI) — Public domain]

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