The planet, classified as LHS 475 b, has a diameter 99 percent that of Earth and was found in the constellation Octans.
The James Webb Space Telescope has begun the new year with a bang. It added another extraordinary milestone to its cosmic achievements - peering 41 light years into the cosmos and
Capturing the planet was a cakewalk for Webb's Near-Infrared Spectrograph - and it did so with two transit observations.said in a statement The planet’s discovery was announced Wednesday at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle. Webb also detected that the planet is a few hundred degrees warmer than Earth. And so, if clouds are seen, it could be concluded that the planet is similar to Venus, which has a carbon dioxide atmosphere and is shrouded in thick clouds.
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