Newly discovered exoplanet: As big as Earth, but very different – Knowledge

In the constellation of Octant in the southern night sky, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a planet outside our solar system for the first time. Officially dubbed “LHS 475 b,” the exoplanet is almost the same size as Earth at 99 percent the diameter of Earth, but orbits its faint central star, a red dwarf 41 light-years away, but in just two days. that gave a team led by astronomers Kevin Stevenson and Jacob Lustig-Yaeger from Johns Hopkins University.