James Webb Space Telescope detects water on distant planet
Nasa has revealed that the James Webb Space Telescope has detected signs of water on a planet more than a thousand light years away.
The US space agency said it’s multi-billion dollar space telescope “captured the signature of water” on the giant gas planet WASP 96-b, which orbits a star 1,150 light years away.
“For the first time, we’ve detected evidence of clouds in this exoplanet’s atmosphere,” Nasa tweeted.
The revelation comes as Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA) share the first set of full-colour images taken by the telescope, which capture the deepest images of the universe ever made.
The ultra high-resolution images also show stellar life cycles and interacting galaxies.
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