Webb Space Telescope To Provide Details of Two Intriguing “Super-Earths” in the Milky Way - SciTechDaily

Astronomers will train Webb’s high-precision spectrographs on two intriguing rocky exoplanets. Imagine if Earth were much, much closer to the Sun. So close that an entire year would only last a few hours. So close that gravity has locked one hemisphere in per…

BySpace Telescope Science InstituteMay 27, 2022 Illustration showing what exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like, based on current understanding of the planet. 55 Cancri e is a rocky planet with a di… [+11911 chars]

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