Software, Not a New Telescope, Pulled Giant Planet 51 Eridani b Out of Old Webb Images
Nature World News | 11.11.2026 03:11
A giant planet that the James Webb Space Telescope could not clearly separate from its star's glare has now been pulled out of two-year-old archival images, not with new hardware but with new software. Researchers at Northwestern University reported in Nature on Nov. 4 that their method recovered 51 Eridani b, a young gas giant about 97 light-years from Earth.
