Article 6A7MA Webb Telescope Reveals Nearby Exoplanet Has No Atmosphere

Webb Telescope Reveals Nearby Exoplanet Has No Atmosphere

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Isaac Schultz
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TRAPPIST-1b is a superhot rocky world just 40 light-years away. Astronomers recently trained the Webb Space Telescope this exoplanet, a world in the TRAPPIST-1 star system, and found that it's devoid of an atmosphere.

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