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Writing to the Charlestown Town Council in support of our town’s lighting ordinance, Dr. Giovanni Fazio, who is Senior Physicist at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a visitor
With the seemingly endless headlines surrounding the discovery of seven new Earth-size planets revolving about the star TRAPPIST-1, one may be wondering,
Seven rocky planets orbit the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, providing a unique opportunity to search for atmospheres on small planets outside the Solar System1. Thanks to the recent launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), possible atmospheric constituents such as carbon dioxide (CO2) are now detectable2,3. Recent JWST observations of the innermost planet TRAPPIST-1 b showed that it is most probably a bare rock without any CO2 in its atmosphere4. Here we report the detection of thermal emission from the dayside of TRAPPIST-1 c with the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on JWST...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was in high-demand when it was shut down in 2020. A new mission might bring it back to life.
"I think it would be pretty ambitious... but really great if we could pull it off."