Webb Space Telescope Can Determine Atmosphere of Some Earth Sized Exoplanets
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6CAKB)
Researchers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to calculate the amount of heat energy coming from the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c. The result suggests that the planet's atmosphere - if it exists at all - is extremely thin. The result marks another step in determining whether planets orbiting small red dwarfs like TRAPPIST-1 - the ...