University of Michigan: JWST Sees Water Vapor Near a Distant Planet - But is It in the Planet's Atmosphere or Its Star?
May 02, 2023
May 02, 2023
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 2 (TNSres) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:
Exoplanets are planets that lie outside of our solar system, and researchers can use telescopes to study their atmospheres.
But until the launch of NASA's JWST, the largest optical telescope in space, researchers haven't been able to determine whether rocky exoplanets--planets composed mostly of rocks rather than gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn--are able to build a . . .
Exoplanets are planets that lie outside of our solar system, and researchers can use telescopes to study their atmospheres.
But until the launch of NASA's JWST, the largest optical telescope in space, researchers haven't been able to determine whether rocky exoplanets--planets composed mostly of rocks rather than gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn--are able to build a . . .