Surprise at the remote planets discovered by the James Webb telescope: "We can get an idea of how strange our Solar System is"

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured a series of remote planets in the HR 8799 star system that are 130 light years away in the Milky Way, and they are very striking. The research was carried out by a group of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University.

Research with the James Webb Telescope to understand the Solar System

With this research, according to William Balmer, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University and leader of the research, "we want to understand our solar system by seeing how it is similar to or different from ours." "From there, we can try to understand how strange our solar system really is, or how normal it is," he added.

It is very unusual to capture direct images of exoplanets, observing their transit across their stars, very close to them, as they are very luminous and envelop them in light. However, Webb has managed to overcome this thanks to a coronagraph, revealing that these four worlds are very large, young, hot and orbit far from their star.

NASA explained this phenomenon of the four planets: "The closest to the star, HR 8799 e, orbits 2.4 billion kilometers from its star, which in our solar system would be located between the orbits of Saturn and Neptune". "The farthest, HR 8799 b, orbits about 10.1 billion kilometers from the star, more than twice Neptune's orbital distance," they added

With this observation, astronomers were allowed to analyze in detail multiple aspects of these worlds (light signals, the gases of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide detected and they say they are very young, 30 million years, being seemed their formation to Saturn and Jupiter, forming dense and solid cores)

In this way, with this observation, totally unknown things about the Solar System are understood in order to be able to scientifically how it behaves.