David Kipping
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So it hasn't been completely confirmed?
James Webb just spotted it.
James Webb spotted it just come out today.
So there's three photos that James Webb took.
Maybe they'll be in this article somewhere.
It took three images, and in one of those images, it captures an actual photo of the planet.
You can see the planet in direct light.
That's how powerful James Webb is.
And it's a nearby star, so it's easy to image.
That S1, that's the planet you're looking at.
So you have to block out the star in the middle because the star is like a billion times brighter than the planet.
So you have to suppress it with all this advanced chronograph technology that James Webb has.
But when you do that and you zoom right in, you see this little planet there.
It's probably about the same size as Saturn.
It's probably a big boy.
Yeah, it's got to connect to something pop culture, otherwise people are like... Yeah, it's got to get you somehow.
It's probably more like, you know, the three-body problem, the books and the show?
Is the Trisolarans, and they live there.