NASA recently said that the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of an extrasolar planet, which is the first time the space telescope has captured a relevant image. According to NASA, this exoplanet named hip 65426 B is a giant gas planet with no rocky surface and is not suitable for habitation. Its mass is about 6 to 12 times that of Jupiter, and its age is about 15 million to 20 million years, which is much younger than the earth. Astronomers discovered this extrasolar planet in 2017 using the very large telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile and took its image. The Webb Space Telescope captured more details of this planet. NASA said that the new images captured by the Webb Space Telescope showed its strong observation ability in the infrared band, which can capture the world outside the solar system, which points out the direction for future observation of exoplanets in the solar system and helps to increase human understanding of exoplanets. The Webb Space Telescope is jointly developed by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. It is considered to be the "successor" of the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope was launched from the kuru Space Center in French Guiana on December 25, 2021, and smoothly entered the orbit around the second Lagrangian point of the solar earth system on January 24 this year. (Li Xinshe)