{"id":8682,"date":"2025-07-14T08:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T08:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8682\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T08:50:07","slug":"webb-spots-its-first-alien-world-a-saturn-sized-planet-shaping-a-nearby-star-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8682\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb spots its first alien world, a Saturn-sized planet shaping a nearby star system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why this is a big deal in our 1-minute read:<\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope has likely captured its very first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/space-science\/direct-images-exoplanets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">direct image of a planet orbiting another star<\/a> &#8211; a major milestone for the mission.<br \/>\nThe planet candidate, called TWA 7 b, is about the mass of Saturn and orbits a star just 6.4 million years old &#8211; offering a rare glimpse into the early days of planetary systems.<br \/>\nUsing a special instrument (a coronagraph) to block the star\u2019s glare, Webb was able to spot the faint glow of the exoplanet in the dusty disk around the star TWA 7.<br \/>\nThe planet\u2019s gravity appears to be shaping the rings of dust around its star, making this the first time a directly imaged exoplanet has been linked to sculpting its home system.<br \/>\nThis breakthrough opens the door to finding and studying lighter, more distant exoplanets, helping scientists understand how planets and solar systems like ours are born.<\/p>\n<p>Our observations reveal a strong candidate for a planet shaping the structure of the TWA 7 debris disk, and its position is exactly where we expected to find a planet of this mass<\/p>\n<p>Anne-Marie Lagrange, lead researcher<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1022\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/twa-7-sphere-1022x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Image of the disk around star TWA 7 by ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope\u2019s SPHERE instrument. Image captured with JWST\u2019s MIRI instrument is overlayed. Empty area in the R2 ring labelled CC#1 is the site of potential planet TWA 7 b. Credit: A.-M. Lagrange et al.\" class=\"wp-image-172328 size-full\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why this is a big deal in our 1-minute read: The James Webb Space Telescope has likely captured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-8682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}