NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet — and researchers are remarking at how similar the celestial object is to Earth. LHS 475 b sits 41 light-years away from us in the constellation Octans. Details on the planet’s composition and atmosphere are still murky, but it’s a small, rocky planet, like ours, and is roughly 99% the same diameter as Earth. The only difference is it measures a few hundred degrees hotter than our temperate world.
In the past, these types of planets have remained elusive to us, evading detection by even our most powerful space instruments. But that seems to no longer be the case, with the $10 billion JWST capturing LHS 475 b with ease and precision via a near-infrared spectograph.
“These first observational results from an Earth-sized, rocky planet open the door to many future possibilities for studying rocky planet atmospheres with Webb,” said NASA’s Astrophysics Division director Mark Clampin. “Webb is bringing us closer and closer to a new understanding of Earth-like worlds outside the Solar System, and the mission is only just getting started.”
NASA: Not Another Stupid Activity.
I know they want to go there too.
remarkably similar? sounds like similar in size and some other small features. that is hardly the main aspect of earth even on kefira standards
7.6 million miles from earth! Surprised they haven’t mapped the planet they know the temperature by seeing a dot in the telescope.
“JUST A FEW HUNDRED DEGREES HOTTER THAN EARTH” – NO PROBLEM.
A temperature from -225 to +243 Fahrenheit every single day and night.
If the govt can fool the sheeple with a fake president, a fake virus, a fake vaxine, why not a fake imagined discovery in another planet?
Most of us can’t even handle 100 degree weather.
-let alone 100 percent of the time…
They had to say that to discredit those who say (because they’ve investigated and Kerry confirmed it) that Nasa’s landings were in deserts as they were really never on other planets or on the moon. They haven’t stopped lying to us. They use images from Devon Island in Canada, an uninhabited island, and say it’s Mars. They say that a location in Riyadh got bombarded while they’re in Atlants.