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James Webb Telescope Debuts New Trick: Blocking Out Stars and Photographing Their Planets

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James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a new trick, a coronagraph, which allows it to block the light of a star and see what small objects are orbiting it.

The image found a faint source of infrared light in a disk of debris orbiting TWA 7 , a red dwarf star around 111 light years from Earth .

With the outstanding chance of the object being a background galaxy at more than 0% , the researchers can’t say for certain it’s a planet, but they suspect very much that it is.