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NASA's Webb Telescope Spots Potential Saturn-sized Planet

7/7/2025

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a potential new planet, TWA 7 b, roughly the size of Saturn, orbiting the young star TWA 7, just 34 light-years away. By cleverly blocking the star's brightness, this groundbreaking observation could be the first direct glimpse of a planet influencing a debris disk, deepening our knowledge of planetary formation.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a potential new planet, TWA 7 b, roughly the size of Saturn, orbiting the young star TWA 7, just 34 light-years away. By cleverly blocking the star's brightness, this groundbreaking observation could be the first direct glimpse of a planet influencing a debris disk, deepening our knowledge of planetary formation.