Exoplanets have been discovered using several different methods for collecting or combining direct images to isolate planets from the background light of their star.

2024年7月24日 · An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged an exoplanet roughly 12 light-years from Earth. The planet, Epsilon Indi Ab, is one of the coldest exoplanets observed to date.

2018年10月30日 · As the name would suggest, Direct Imaging consists of capturing images of exoplanets directly, which is possible by searching for the light reflected from a planet’s atmosphere at infrared...

2023年12月5日 · By studying real images and spectra of exoplanets, astronomers can find out what the planets’ atmospheres are made of. This, in turn, can offer clues about the processes occurring on the imaged worlds, which can affect their habitability.

2019年10月28日 · The first exoplanet imaged by Webb, called HIP 65426 b, is about six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter. It is young as planets go — about 15 to 20 million years old, compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old Earth.

2022年9月2日 · Exoplanet HIP 65426 b shines in four different wavelengths in this image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Purple represents 3 micrometers, blue is 4.44 micrometers, yellow is 11.4...

4 天之前 · Detailed characterization of objects like these is essential preparation for direct imaging of exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space ... Although it is not classified as a gas giant exoplanet — it doesn’t orbit a star and may instead be a brown dwarf — SIMP 0136 is an ideal target for exo ...

2024年1月31日 · The Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will demonstrate new technologies that could vastly increase the number of planets outside our solar system (exoplanets) that scientists can directly observe.

2020年4月7日 · Under a Phase II NIAC program, we confirmed that a mission to the strong interference region of the SGL (beyond 547.6 AU) carrying a meter-class telescope with a solar coronagraph would directly image a habitable Earth-like exoplanet within our stellar neighborhood.

2024年8月4日 · NASA is embarking on an ambitious program to develop a Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) flagship to directly image ∼ 25 potentially Earth-like planets and spectroscopically characterize them for signs of life, as well as perform transformational astrophysics. This mission was recommended by Astro2020, which additionally recommended …