The parent of the planet is called TWA 7 a relatively young Red Dwarf Star believed to be around 6.4 million years old , the planet lives 50 times the distance of Earth from our Sun and is in a position a planet of its type would be expected to be , TWA 7 is prime for telescopic exploration as it's relatively close at about 34 light-years away and its debris disk is face on to us so we could see the trail from the possible planet and then image it using Webb data.
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Perhaps there's an Earth 2.0 in one of the remaining gaps in the debris disk to go along with its Saturn 2.0 , maybe one day we'll find it or perhaps they've already found us.
Quote:Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have captured compelling evidence of a planet with a mass similar to Saturn orbiting the young nearby star TWA 7. In this image combining ground-based data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and data from Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), light from the star TWA 7 has been subtracted. The location of the star is marked with a circle and a star symbol at the center of the image. The blue color represents data from the VLT’s SPHERE instrument, which showcases the location of the disk surrounding the host star. MIRI data is shown in orange. The bright orange spot to the upper right of the star is the source identified as TWA 7 b, within the debris disk. The more distant orange spot visible in the left of the image is an unrelated background star.
Quote:The source is located in a gap in one of three dust rings that were discovered around TWA 7 by previous ground-based observations. The object’s brightness, color, distance from the star, and position within the ring are consistent with theoretical predictions for a young, cold, Saturn-mass planet that is expected to be sculpting the surrounding debris disk.
"Our observations reveal a strong candidate for a planet shaping the structure of the TWA 7 debris disk, and its position is exactly where we expected to find a planet of this mass," said Anne-Marie Lagrange, CNRS researcher at the Observatoire de Paris-PSL and Université Grenoble Alpes in France, lead author of the paper.
“This observatory enables us to capture images of planets with masses similar to those in the solar system, which represents an exciting step forward in our understanding of planetary systems, including our own,” added co-author Mathilde Malin of Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/l...ever-seen/
Perhaps there's an Earth 2.0 in one of the remaining gaps in the debris disk to go along with its Saturn 2.0 , maybe one day we'll find it or perhaps they've already found us.