The Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a nearby rocky planet with a volatile atmosphere.
Scientists have spotted a rocky exoplanet with a possible atmosphere, which they believe may be burbling out from a magma ocean on the distant world. The planet is called 55 Cancri e. It’s located about 41 light-years from Earth and, per the team’s observations, has a layer of gases above its surface that may constitute an atmosphere. 55 Cancri e is a super-Earth, a rocky body roughly 8.
“There have been many observations of atmospheres on exoplanets, but all of them have massive, hydrogen-dominated atmospheres,” said Renyu Hu, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the study’s lead author, in an email to Gizmodo. “Here we finally obtained an observation of an atmosphere surrounding a rocky exoplanet.
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