exoplanetology
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This Earth-Size Planet May Be Entirely Covered in Volcanoes
NASA telescopes spotted a hardcore exoplanet 90 light-years away.
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Webb Telescope Spots a Planet With ‘Gritty’ Clouds Just 40 Light-Years Away
The Webb Space Telescope just turned its infrared gaze at an exoplanet and found dense clouds swirling in the atmosphere of this quirky world.
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Watch Four Planets Spin Around a Star 130 Million Light-Years Away
Astronomical phenomena tend to occur over timespans that dwarf our human scale — a galaxy changes over millions and billions of years, not decades. But a new timelapse of observations of a distant star system shows its clockwork motion over just 12 years, packed into only a few seconds.
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Webb Telescope Reveals Noxious Atmosphere of a Planet 700 Light-Years Away
WASP-39b is a hot Saturn with some nasty chemicals in its skies.