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.
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@europeanspaceagency
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@NASA, ESA,
@canadianspaceagency, J. Olmsted (
@space_telescopes);
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