'It is extraordinary that we can measure this.'
"It is extraordinary that we can measure this."The James Webb Space Telescope just got a very close look at TRAPPIST-1 c, a rocky exoplanet located roughly 40 light-years away in the TRAPPIST-1 star system.
"Our results are consistent with the planet being a bare rock with no atmosphere," Laura Kreidberg, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany and a co-author on the study, said in aTRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star, the most common type of star in our galaxy. The more we understand about the planets that orbit them, the more information we have about the feasibility of these stars supporting life.
"TRAPPIST-1 c is interesting because it’s basically a Venus twin: It's about the same size as Venus and receives a similar amount of radiation from its host star as Venus gets from the Sun," said Kreidberg. "We thought it could have a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere like Venus."
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