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A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected evidence on an atmisphere on a distant planet called TOI-561 b, its proximity to its ...

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Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet racing around its star in under 11 hours. Despite being blasted by intense ...

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One side of TOI-561 b is constantly locked towards its star, and the observations showed that this face is very cool for such a closely orbiting planet. A thick atmosphere must be transferring heat ...

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