James Webb telescope captures first images of a planet outside the solar system

NASA has published the first image of a planet outside the solar system taken by the latest James Webb Space Telescope. 

"For the first time, astronomers have used NASA's James Webb telescope to directly photograph a planet outside our solar system. The exoplanet is a gas giant that has no rocky surface and is not suitable for life," NASA notes on its website.

The four images published by the agency show the planet HIP 65426 b imaged by various space observatory instruments. The study, which obtained the photos, is led by the University of Exeter in the UK.

NASA said that the planet HIP 65426 b is six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter and its age is about 15-20 million years, which makes it much "younger" than Earth, which, according to scientists, about 4.5 billion years. The exoplanet seen by the telescope was discovered by scientists in 2017 using instruments from the European Southern Observatory, part of the Chile-based VLT project.
The James Webb Space Telescope launched from Earth late last year and began its science mission in July.