Webb Searches for Atmosphere on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e

Sep 9, 2025 - 12:00
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Webb Searches for Atmosphere on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e
The Earth-size exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e, depicted at the lower right, is silhouetted as it passes in front of its flaring host star in this artist’s concept of the TRAPPIST-1 system. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Joseph Olmsted, STScI.

Astronomers are working their way through the TRAPPIST-1 system with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, demonstrating its unprecedented ability to capture detailed information about exoplanet atmospheres and learning to work with that data.

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