James Webb telescope discovers its first exoplanet

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• The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged its first exoplanet, TWA 7B.
• TWA 7B is about the same mass as Saturn and is 110 light years from Earth. 29s
• Direct imaging of exoplanets is rare, with only 2% discovered this way in the past 30 years. 57s
• TWA 7B is around 6 million years old, much younger than our solar system. 1m 37s