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News about space – a planet the size of Earth may have an atmosphere – UNIAN
In particular, we are talking about such a space object as the cold star Trappist-1.
An Earth-sized planet in a star system that is very similar to our solar system may have an atmosphere. This is evidenced by new research that was carried out using the James Webb Space Telescope, Forbes writes.
Specifically, in 2017, NASA discovered that the cool star Trappist 1 has seven potentially Earth-like rocky planets orbiting its star, including three in the not-so-hot and not-so-cold “life zone.”
Trappist 1 is known to be only 39 light years away, but close enough for astronomers to study it using spacecraft…
