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Looking Skyward: NASA detects carbon in exoplanet atmosphere

CAI | By John Basile
Published October 13, 2022 at 7:51 PM EDT
This illustration shows what an exoplanet may look like based on indirect transit observations from the Webb telescope .
NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
This illustration shows what an exoplanet may look like based on indirect transit observations from the Webb telescope.

CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about a discovery made possible by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Learn more here: https://www.mariamitchell.org/loines-observatory
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John Basile
John Basile is the local host of All Things Considered weekday afternoons and a reporter.
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