Webb telescope images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," offer insight into carbon dioxide, NASA says
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet CO₂ for first time
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...
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This could help astronomers identify exoplanets that might support life ... has taken a stunning image of the solar system's other ice giant, the planet Uranus. The new image ...
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Astronomer finds gas giant exoplanets formed earlier than previously thought
Jupiter-like exoplanets, for instance, were initially thought to take nearly 3 to 5 million years to fully form; recent observations now suggest that for a gas giant like Jupiter, this process is ...
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Webb telescope's images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," NASA says
Normally, the Webb telescope only detects exoplanets by glimpsing them when ... indirectly detected CO2 in the atmosphere of the gas giant WASP-39 in 2022. But for this latest discovery, "we ...
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Astronomers create a ‘weather map’ for a gas giant exoplanet
Windy planet: Artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth. (Courtesy: ESO/L Calçada) Astronomers have constructed the first “weather map” of the ...
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Webb telescope's images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," NASA says
Because CO2 condenses into little ice particles ... Young Gas Giant HR 8799 e (NIRCam Spectrum) / Credit: NASA Astronomers have now discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets, many of them massive ...