Source: NASA
Authors: NASA Webb Mission Team
Published Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000
NASA’s Webb and Hubble Telescopes Unveil Unusual Warm Gas Giant Exoplanet, WASP-107 b
ByHelium3.Space News
May 22, 2024
This artist’s concept shows what the warm Neptune exoplanet WASP-107 b could look like based on recent data gathered by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope along with previous observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. Observations captured by Hubble’s WFC3 (Wide Field Camera 3), Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), Webb’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph), and Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) suggest that the planet has a relatively large core surrounded by a relatively small mass of hydrogen and helium gas, which has been inflated due to tidal heating of the interior.
NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)