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A 'super-puff' exoplanet is losing its atmosphere, and the James Webb Space Telescope had a look
Astronomers have spotted a distant world "shedding" its atmosphere into space in real time, creating a giant companion cloud of gas that travels ahead of the planet as it orbits its star. Observations ...
Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they block their star's light and by the way they make their stars wobble, and ...
Hydrogen sulfide is what makes rotten eggs stink. But the discovery of this gas in the atmospheres of four distant, Jupiter-like planets is turning heads for a pleasant reason: It solves the mystery ...
Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...
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