TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet seems to have no atmosphere — the truth may hide in its star, James ...

Efforts to observe the atmospheres of  planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system are being stymied by rambunctious activity on the surface of the red dwarf star at its center, new findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) show.

And new observations, from a team of astronomers led by Olivia Lim of the University of Montréal, corroborate these earlier findings by taking the first ever spectrum of a planet in the TRAPPIST-1 system, specifically TRAPPIST-1b.

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Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2023-09-26T18:00:01Z
Author: Keith Cooper
Twitter: @SPACEdotcom
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