In a first, the Webb telescope found a planet by actually ‘seeing’ it

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged an exoplanet for the first time, discovering a Saturn-sized world orbiting a young star 111 light-years away. The planet was found in a gap between debris rings around TWA 7, a 6.4-million-year-old star. Using a coronagraph to block starlight, JWST captured the faint planet orbiting 52 times farther from its star than Earth is from the sun. This breakthrough could lead to more exoplanet discoveries using direct imaging techniques with JWST.