The James Webb Space Telescope discovers the first exoplanet News

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NASA has revealed the first planet discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope that shares striking similarities with Earth.

The planet, called LHS 475 b, is roughly the size of our own and its discovery is expected to be one of many by NASA’s new telescope. It is 41 light-years away in the constellation of Octane, and is known as an “exoplanet” because it is located outside our solar system.

The telescope is able to observe the composition of the planet’s atmosphere, revealing more fine details than before. However, for now, scientists can only say what is not in LHS 475 b’s atmosphere. It couldn’t have a thick methane-dominated atmosphere, for example, similar to that on Titan,

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