Webb Telescope Discovers One of the Coldest and Oldest Exoplanets
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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first direct image of the cold, distant exoplanet 14 Herculis c, orbiting a star 60 light-years away. This planet, about seven times the mass of Jupiter and with a temperature of just 26°F, is notable for its unusual tilted orbit and faint infrared glow, providing new insights into older, colder planets outside our solar system.
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