{"id":13557,"date":"2025-03-17T16:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/webb-telescope-images-of-exoplanets-stunned-researchers-offer-insight-into-carbon-dioxide-nasa-says\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:20:50","slug":"webb-telescope-images-of-exoplanets-stunned-researchers-offer-insight-into-carbon-dioxide-nasa-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/webb-telescope-images-of-exoplanets-stunned-researchers-offer-insight-into-carbon-dioxide-nasa-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb telescope images of exoplanets &#8220;stunned researchers,&#8221; offer insight into carbon dioxide, NASA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/james-webb-space-telescope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/webbtelescope.org\/contents\/news-releases\/2025\/news-2025-114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The gas giants are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-3881\/adb1c6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study in The Astrophysical Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The HR 8799 system, 130 light years from Earth, is only 30 million years old \u2014 just a baby compared to our solar system&#8217;s 4.6 billion years. A U.S.-led team of researchers used Webb to directly detect carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of all four of the system&#8217;s known planets, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Webb&#8217;s new images of two iconic systems, HR 8799 and <a href=\"https:\/\/webbtelescope.org\/contents\/media\/images\/2025\/114\/01JNH8C77ZA5WJH19BDZY7B88S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">51 Eridani<\/a>, and their planets have stunned researchers, and provided additional information into the chemical make-up of the young gas giants,&#8221; NASA said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/webbtelescope.org\/contents\/news-releases\/2025\/news-2025-114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"hr8799-stsci-01jnh6e54nyh6xd9w88x507ny0.png \" height=\"472\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/17\/8d2c3df8-f662-4852-8291-2fafb9744bfe\/thumbnail\/620x472\/9b6adca25add5b37fbcc7a71aa142913\/hr8799-stsci-01jnh6e54nyh6xd9w88x507ny0.png?v=e7f44f50e1cf6b32bb81cbfeaec70acf 1x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">HR 8799 (NIRCam Image)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                NASA<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They used Webb&#8217;s coronagraph instruments, which block the light from bright stars to get a better view of the planets revolving around them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like putting your thumb up in front of the sun when you&#8217;re looking up at the sky,&#8221; lead study author William Balmer, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, the Webb telescope only detects exoplanets by glimpsing them when they cross in front of their host star.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;transiting method&#8221; was how Webb indirectly detected CO2 in the atmosphere of the gas giant WASP-39 in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>But for latest discovery, &#8220;we&#8217;re actually seeing the light that is emitted from the planet itself, as opposed to the fingerprint of that light from the host star,&#8221; Balmer said.<\/p>\n<p>This is not easy \u2014 Balmer compared the process to using a torch to spot fireflies next to a lighthouse.<\/p>\n<p>While these gas giants may not be able to host life, it is possible that they had moons that could, he added.<\/p>\n<p>There are missions currently under way to find out if there could be life in the vast oceans underneath the icy shells of several of Jupiter&#8217;s moons.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Key piece of proof&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Carbon dioxide (CO2) is essential for life on Earth, making it a key target in the search for life elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Because CO2 condenses into little ice particles in the deep cold of space, its presence can shed light on planetary formation.<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter and Saturn are believed to have first formed from a &#8220;bottom up&#8221; process in which a bunch of tiny, icy particles came together into a solid core which then sucked in gas to grow into giants, Balmer said.<\/p>\n<p>So the new discovery is a &#8220;key piece of proof&#8221; that far-off planets can form in a similar way to those in our celestial backyard, Balmer said.<\/p>\n<p>But how common this is throughout the universe remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our hope with this kind of research is to understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in the comparison to other exoplanetary systems, so we can contextualize our existence,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/webbtelescope.org\/contents\/news-releases\/2025\/news-2025-114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Balmer said<\/a>. &#8220;We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they&#8217;re similar or different when compared to ours. From there, we can try to get a sense of how weird our solar system really is\u2014or how normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"chart-stsci-01jnh9annab3kpp8aehbvgwpc3.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/17\/b535778c-2fe8-43ac-be22-e58b3cfccf45\/thumbnail\/620x349\/90b92b4825efb80810e96b7f0609994f\/chart-stsci-01jnh9annab3kpp8aehbvgwpc3.jpg?v=e7f44f50e1cf6b32bb81cbfeaec70acf 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/17\/b535778c-2fe8-43ac-be22-e58b3cfccf45\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/95ffb4903ed8a7a016575691b594c675\/chart-stsci-01jnh9annab3kpp8aehbvgwpc3.jpg?v=e7f44f50e1cf6b32bb81cbfeaec70acf 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Young Gas Giant HR 8799 e (NIRCam 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