James Webb Space Telescope Set to Study Two Strange Super-Earths

Space agency officials promise to deliver geology results from worlds dozens of light-years away

The telescope’s scientific consortium has an ambitious agenda to study geology on these small planets from “50 light-years away”, they said in a statement Thursday . The work will be a big stretch for the new observatory, which should exit commissioning in a few weeks.

55 Cancri e orbits its parent star at a tight 1.5 million miles , about four percent of the relative distance between Mercury and the sun. Two teams will test these hypotheses: one led by research scientist Renyu Hu of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will examine the planet’s thermal emission for signs of an atmosphere, while a second team led by Alexis Brandeker, an associate professor from Stockholm University, will measure heat emittance from the lit side of 55 Cancri e.

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