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Gliese 486b is a Hellish World With Temperatures Above 700 Kelvin – Universe Today
The CARMENES consortium recently discovered a super-Earth just 21 light-years away that will be the perfect test case for exoplanets in the future.
In the past two and a half decades, astronomers have confirmed the existence of thousands of exoplanets. In recent years, thanks to improvements in instrumentation and methodology, the process has slowly been shifting from the process of discovery to that of characterization. In particular, astronomers are hoping to obtain spectra from exoplanet atmospheres that would indicate their chemical composition.
This is no easy task since direct imaging is very difficult, and the only other method is to…
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