Orbits of the planets in the 14 Herculis system. (Image credit: Deion Desir/AMNH/OpenSpace)
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has reached another major milestone by directly imaging a distant, cold planet in a solar system different from our own, astronomers reported June 10.
The exoplanet, named 14 Herculis c, or 14 Her c for short, orbits a sun-like star about 60 light-years from Earth in the constellation Hercules. It appears as a faint, fuzzy orange dot in the new JWST image, its color due to heat emitted from its atmosphere being converted into visible colors.
Astronomers estimate that 14 Her c formed about 4 billion years ago and has a cold atmosphere of just 26 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 3 degrees Celsius).
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