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James Webb Space Telescope wins 'race against time' to directly observe young exoplanet

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The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged its lowest mass extrasolar planet outside the solar system yet.

The planet AF Leporis b ( AF Lep b) is the closest to its star to be directly observed by the $10 billion space telescope.

AF Lep b is a young exoplanet estimated to be just 23 million years old .

It has a mass around 3.2 times that of Jupiter .

Bowler : "This is foreshadowing some of the exciting work that we will see in the coming years " The data was taken in the JWST 's second year of operations.

Bowler says there's a lot more to come from the data that will be published in the future.

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