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Key insight: <p>GJ 504 b
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For a decade the Pink Planet was too faint for any ground telescope to study — and when James Webb finally caught its spectrum, the best fit to the light was an atmosphere hazed with salt clouds
GJ 504 b, the rosy world that defeated the world's biggest ground telescopes for years, gave up its first spectrum to JWST in a few hours of telescope time. The model that matched the light neede...






















