Signs Of Co2 On A Planet Beyond Our Solar System
Leave a comment Showing just how precise it can be, the James Webb Space Telescope detects the first definitive signature of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere. Illustration showing what the exoplanet WASP-39 b could look like, based on current understanding of the planet. (Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/J. Olmsted) In a remarkable demonstration of its accuracy and precision, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, has captured definitive evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet ....