Webb Detects New Exoplanet
On 11th January, 2022, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first new exoplanet, LHS 475 b.
- Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) captured the planet with only two transit observations.
Key Points
- Location: LHS 475 b is a rocky planet, relatively close at 41 light-years away, in the Octans constellation.
- Size: LHS 475 b is almost exactly the size of the Earth, clocking in at 99% of our home planet’s diameter.
- Temperature: The planet is a few hundred degrees warmer than Earth.
- Orbit: It completes an orbit around its host star (a red dwarf) in ....