https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/giant-exoplanet-emerges-from-the-dark-when-the-james-webb-space-telescope-turns-out-the-starlightContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/giant-exoplanet-emerges-from-the-dark-when-the-james-webb-space-telescope-turns-out-the-starlighthttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/giant-exoplanet-emerges-from-the-dark-when-the-james-webb-space-telescope-turns-out-the-starlight#u193274Wed, 11 Nov 2026 07:11:24 +0000Astronomers have recovered a direct image of the giant exoplanet 51 Eridani b from two-year-old James Webb Space Telescope observations by applying a new computational technique that models and subtracts stellar glare. The planet, roughly 11 times Jupiter's mass and orbiting a star about 97 light-years away, had been hidden in the raw data because the host star's scattered light overwhelmed it. The method uses a digital twin of JWST's optical system to push contrast below the telescope's nominal stability limit, allowing the planet to emerge without new observations.Why it