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Posted on August 24, 2022October 26, 2023

The James Webb Space Telescope Begins Looking at Exoplanets

  The James Webb Space Telescope has begun the part of its mission to study the atmospheres of 70 exoplanets in ways, and at a depth, well beyond anything done so far. The telescope is not likely to answer questions like whether there is life on distant planet -- its infrared wavelengths will tell us …

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Posted on February 18, 2016March 18, 2019

Cloudy, With a Chance of Iron Rain

  From an Earth-centric point of view, rain of course means falling water.  We can have storms with falling dust -- I experienced a few of those while a reporter in India -- but rain is pretty much exclusively H2O falling from the clouds. But as the study of exoplanets moves aggressively into the realm …

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