NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. Though it's notoriously difficult to snap direct images of distant planets, the overachieving observatory has managed to capture four of them in a single image.

Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of carbon dioxide in a distant planet’s atmosphere. This breakthrough not only confirms that the massive planets of HR 8799 likely formed through core accretion,

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly capture images of the planets in the star system HR 8799, which will help contextualize our existence in the universe.