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Finding Atmospheres on Red Dwarf Planets Will Take Hundreds of Hours of Webb Time


JWST is enormously powerful. One of the reasons it was launched is to examine exoplanet atmospheres to determine their chemistry, something only a powerful telescope can do.

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