Factoid - Friday, June 27, 2025
The European Space Agency reported that the James Webb Space Telescope has captured evidence of a new planet with a mass comparable to that of Saturn. If confirmed, this would be the telescope's first planet discovered by direct imagery, and the lightest planet ever found using high-contrast imaging. The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on December 25th, 2021, and orbits the Sun one million miles away from the Earth, according to NASA.
Posted on Friday, June 27, 2025 @ 11:00 AM

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