Saturday, January 14, 2023

Exoplanet Watch Program

Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99% of Earth’s diameter, located at a distance of 41 light years from Earth and orbiting every two days around it's red dwarf star which has a temperature half of our Sun.

But could you observe an exoplanet from your backyard? I made some progress with imaging Quasars up to redshift z=2.038 (see this link) and of course the first discovered quasar 3C 273 (see this link). But a next challenge could be the observation of an exoplanet from your background. Well, according to different websites it would be possible. I found a couple of interesting website which I will be using to get more information and which I will share below.