JWST’s Hunt for Habitable Exoplanets Finds Disappointment, Again
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that
TRAPPIST-1 c, the second world in a seven-planet system, lacks an
atmosphere, Scientiftic American, June 21, 2023
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Life in the cosmos: JWST hints at lower number of habitable planets
Alexandre Witze, Nature News, June 19, 2023
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Webb Rules Out Thick Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere for Rocky Exoplanet
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, June 20, 2023
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The open access paper is:
Zieba, S., Kreidberg, L., Ducrot, E., Gillon, M., Morley, C., Schaefer,
L., Tamburo, P., Koll, D.D., Lyu, X., Acuña, L. and Agol, E., 2023.
No thick carbon dioxide atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c.
Nature, pp.1-4.
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Yours,
Paul H.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)