See those two dots with arrows pointing to them?

They're giant gas planets orbiting their star, located 307 lightyears away.

These are directly imaged exoplanets.

February 17, 2026 - 03:14 UTC

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I've never seen a solar system where arrows trail planets before. That's wild as shit. Go JWST go!
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What are these dots?
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Good question! Background stars.
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big deal
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So not like Gliese 581d, g, f, or c? These are real? Cool!
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Problem is, anything that currently can be directly imaged is far too big to be a habitable planet. Habitable planet candidates will continue to be discovered only by indirect means…and thus more uncertain. Still, these exo-giants are indeed cool.
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ok what about the giant creepy eyeball staring at me
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Have you, at some time recently, put on any heirloom rings? :P
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This is the TYC 8998-760-1 or YSES 1 star system. The star is a pre-main-sequence K-class star the same mass and radius as the Sun.

The brighter of the two exoplanets is YC 8998-760-1b. Between 14 and 21 times the mass of Jupiter, it orbits at 146 AU, around five times farther than Neptune.
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The dimmer of the two exogiants, TYC 8998-760-1c, is about seven times the mass of Jupiter and is a staggering 320 AU from its star—11 times Neptune's distance from the Sun, or almost 50 billion km.
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And on one of their moons is a beautiful woman who can't wait to kiss Captain Kirk!
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