Astronomers Determine the Surface of a Rocky Planet Beyond Our Solar System for the First Time
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This planet is 50 light years away from us.
JWST finds a dark, airless exoplanet covered in rock like Mercury
The light from LHS 3844 b does not suggest oceans, clouds, or even air. What it points to instead is a dark, battered surface. This surface may have more in common with Mercury or the Moon than with anything you would recognize from Earth. Using the Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, aboard the James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by Sebastian Zieba and Laura Kreidberg, from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and Center for Astrophysics | H…
Astronomers uncover the scorched, airless surface of a nearby super
A dark, blazing world with no atmosphere—this is the emerging portrait of LHS 3844 b, a rocky exoplanet located just 48.5 light-years from Earth. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a major step beyond atmospheric studies, directly probing the surface composition of a distant planet for the first time. Orbiting its red […] The post Astronomers uncover the scorched, airless surface of a nearby super-Earth appeared first o…
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