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UC Riverside astrophysicist Stephen Kane had to double check his calculations. He wasn’t sure the planet he was studying could be as extreme as it seemed. He saw a planet in this faraway star system covered with so many active volcanoes that seen from a distance it would take on a fiery, glowing-red hue.
The JWST has mapped a distant exoplanet's weather. It's a blistering hot world where 5000 mph winds whip around the planet constantly.
NASA says it may have discovered a habitable Super-Earth just 137 light-years away. The planet is called TOI-715 b.
Scientists have identified two relatively close super-Earth exoplanets to be studied by the now operational James Webb Space Telescope.
In this excerpt, explore how the field of exoplanets has sprung up nearly overnight and what the wealth of new discoveries tell us about the worlds circling our own Sun.