JWST Confirms GJ 1132 B Has No Atmosphere, Challenging Exoplanet Theories

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have definitively confirmed that GJ 1132 b, a rocky exoplanet orbiting a nearby M-dwarf star, lacks an atmosphere. This conclusion challenges earlier conflicting data, which alternately suggested the presence of a water-rich atmosphere or no at... [More info]

IT'S EXOCUP TIME!!!!

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🚨It's here; the 1st poll of #ExoCup2022!🚨
In Round 1 Group A we have #WASP121b, #TRAPPIST1e, #GJ1132b, & #PSR1257b fighting for two slots in the Round-of-16. hot Jupiter, temperate rock, dense super-earth, or resurrected pulsar world. Which #exoplanet will prevail?

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