00:03the james webb space telescope has provided astronomers with a lot of firsts and now it
00:08has given us the first direct image of a brand new exoplanet this is what is being called epsilon
00:14ind ab the newest exoplanet which can be added to our ever-growing list it's what astronomers
00:19call a super jupiter or a gas giant which is very much like the largest planet in our solar system
00:24but bigger this is only the 25th exoplanet to ever be directly imaged orbiting an orange dwarf just 12
00:31light years away from us the new observations indicate the exoplanet is around 3.3 times the
00:36mass of jupiter with the james webb telescope finding that it orbits its host star at around 28
00:41astronomical units or 28 times the distance of the earth to the sun for reference neptune orbits the
00:47sun at 30 astronomical units researchers previously believed it orbited at just 8.8 astronomical units
00:54the researchers say this could usher in a new age of direct exoplanet imaging and give us a better
00:59understanding of how gas planets form and evolve astronomers add they believe epsilon in ab is
01:05the coldest exoplanet ever imaged with an estimated temperature of 35 degrees fahrenheit
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