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Potential Atmosphere Detected on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140b


Using spectral data from the Magellan Clay telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, astronomers detected helium escaping from LHS 1140b, a rocky exoplanet that orbits in the habitable zone of the nearby low-mass star LHS 1140.

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