Cloudy Exoplanet (Illustration)

 Cloudy Exoplanet (Illustration)

This artist’s impression shows a rocky exoplanet with a wispy, cloudy atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf star. Astronomers have identified a new method that could allow Webb to detect an exoplanet’s atmosphere in just a few hours of observing time.

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NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI), Joseph Olmsted (STScI)