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Webb telescope sees world that could reek of burnt matches and rotten eggs | Mashable


Astronomers may have found a stink bomb.

"This discovery was surprising, as it stands out in stark contrast to the atmospheres of rocky planets in our own solar system, where water vapor and carbon dioxide are much more prevalent," said Agnibha Banerjee, lead author of the study, in The Conversation, a nonprofit news site written by scholars and researchers. Scientists are using the James Webb Space Telescope to learn whether rocky worlds orbiting closely to red dwarf stars can retain atmospheres.Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez illustration Espinoza is heading up the implementation of a massive Webb telescope study of rocky worlds outside the solar system, specifically to discover if planets orbiting closely to small cool stars could have air.

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