It takes two centuries to complete one revolution around its star.

Eps Ind Ab is located approximately 12 light years from our solar system.

He James Webb Space Telescope It allows us to study the Universe like never before. Its instruments have recently captured everything from a “dead” galaxy to a celestial body that smells like rotten eggs. Now it’s time to get to know a huge “super-Jupiter” exoplanet that’s quite special.

An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany has been studying a series of data collected by the aforementioned observation instrument since last year. However, it was only last Wednesday that it published its findings in the scientific journal Nature.

Cold Ancient Gas Giant

The study suggests that Eps Ind Ab is located about 12 light years from our solar system. quite a short distance. For example, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor of the Milky Way, is about 160,000 light years from our solar system. The exoplanet WASP-43b is about 238 light years away.

Eps Ind Ab has the characteristics to be considered a “super Jupiter.” It is a gas giant, about six times larger than Jupiter. In addition, this exoplanet has an orbit about 15 times further than that of the Earth and the Sun, and takes about 200 years to orbit its star.

This isn’t the first time astronomers have found evidence of the planet, but they previously underestimated its mass and orbital distance. The latest research has not only determine its orbit with great accuracyand determine such characteristics as its composition and climate.

Although it appears as a bright spot in the images, the various instruments on James Webb have collected a wealth of scientific data. Most notably, it is the first exoplanet to be “photographed” by a telescope that has never been photographed from our planet before.

Scientists also claim that Eps Ind Ab is much colder than any other gas giant studied so far. As for the age of this celestial body, it is believed to be about 3.5 billion yearsWhile this would indicate that it would be about 1,000 years younger than our solar system, it is very old.

Let’s remember that telescopes are “time machines.” And that’s one of the most fascinating things about astronomy. When we look at any distant object, we see it as it was at the time the light we detected began to travel toward our planet, so what we see is an image of the past.

Images | Max Planck Institute

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