Comments on: Webb gets first direct infrared image of exoplanet https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/webb-gets-first-direct-infrared-image-of-exoplanet/ Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:02:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: David Ross https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/webb-gets-first-direct-infrared-image-of-exoplanet/#comment-1363209 Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:02:02 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=89079#comment-1363209 I apologise for tossing a bucket of chilly H2O upon this post, but we do need to make a few points clear:
As I read the arxiv paper, this planet was not discovered by JWST. JWST was trained upon HIP 65426 because we already knew since 2017 the existence of a wide-orbit planet there.
Also Science News‘ byline reads 2 September. Luckily the base paper has been updated since then, 28 September, so it’s presumably a better paper than it was…
Although: other direct-images exist for other stars in this stellar-association, “Lower Centaurus-Crux”. Maybe JWST can point at some of those and make real discoveries.

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