It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured four of them in the stellar system HR 8799.

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet beyond our solar system for the first time. The images feature HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years from Earth.

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope is revealing the hidden complexities of exoplanets like never before. For the first time, Webb has captured “direct images” of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere located 130 light-years away.