JWST Discovers Its First Exoplanet, and It's Earth-sized!

Another milestone was achieved by the James Webb Space Telescope.

A photograph of NASA technicians lifting the James Webb Space Telescope with a crane and moving it inside a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Source: NASA.

Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet outside our Solar System, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the exoplanet in the constellation Octans and is relatively close at only 41 light-years away…