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Rahul Rao

Webb Telescope finds carbon dioxide in a hot Jupiter atmosphere — and it could aid the search for alien life


Just a few years ago, astronomers were lucky if they could even find vague ghosts of planets in other star systems. Today, astronomers haven’t just found thousands of exoplanets — they’re starting to peel away their atmospheres and find the chemicals that lie within.

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