The most advanced space telescope ever did not disappoint.
— bigger than a planet, but too small to be a proper star. This one gives off a dim, reddish glow, a product of the modified form of fusion that happens on objects that are very massive, but too small to fuse hydrogen. Still stranger, Webb observed thats — a first for this kind of object. The exoplanet is also small for a brown dwarf and therefore young.
As part of its first release of images and data from Webb, NASA released the telescope's first spectrum of the atmosphere of an exoplanet, from a planet called WASP-96b. Webb's spectrographs analyzed the light of the planet’s star filtered through the planet's atmosphere as it crossed in front, obtaining a spectrum, a kind of “bar code” of the wavelengths of light absorbed by the planet's atmosphere.on the planet.
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