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Webb Confirms Temperature Difference between Eternal Morning and Evening on WASP-39b


Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have obtained and analyzed morning and evening transmission spectra of WASP-39b, a hot-Saturn exoplanet orbiting a star some 700 light-years away in the constellation of Virgo.

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