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Georgina Torbet

The Webb Telescope could unlock the search for life by studying inhospitable hot Jupiters


Now that it has begun science operations, some of the top targets for the James Webb Space Telescope will be exoplanets. The telescope can identify and examine planets outside our solar system, and can even look into their atmospheres to see what they are composed of. That will give us more information than ever before on the diversity of planet types out there.

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