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Another Earth? Not quite. 🧐 Astronomers using @esawebb just took a closer look at TRAPPIST-1 d — a rocky, Earth-sized planet orbiting a small red dwarf star 40 light-years away. It had all the right ingredients on paper: the right size, the right distance, maybe even liquid water. But Webb’s ultra-sensitive instruments found no signs of an Earth-like atmosphere. The TRAPPIST-1 system still holds six more Earth-sized planets waiting to be explored. Some may yet surprise us. 📹 @europeanspaceagency 🖥️ @NASA, ESA, @canadianspaceagency, J. Olmsted (@space_telescopes); @creativecommons BY 4.0

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