The James Webb Space Telescope has identified a rich mix of gases swirling in the skies of a hot, Jupiter-like world orbiting a star that's around 700-light years from Earth.
This illustration shows how the gas giant planet WASP-39 b might look as it orbits its host star.
Understanding how it works on other worlds"is going to be crucial for understanding life on other planets," says Bean. So when NASA's new flagship telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, launched in December, scientists were eager to peer at this planet to compare the view provided by their new instruments to what had previously been seen with Hubble.
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