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Upcoming Space Telescope Will Study the Atmospheres of Distant Exoplanets – Futurism
The ESA already launched an exoplanet-hunting space telescope last year.
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The European Space Agency just formally signed off on two years worth of feasibility studies that will hopefully clear the way for an exoplanet-studying space telescope for launch in 2029, the BBC reports.
The telescope, the called Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (ARIEL) is designed to study what the atmospheres of exoplanets are made of, and how they are formed and evolve, according to a statement. It will survey the visible and infrared wavelengths of some 1,000…
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