Astronomers from the NASA James Webb Space Telescope, the largest telescope in space, revealed for the first time the chemical composition of planets outside the solar system as they passed in front of their stars. Where the planet blocks a small part of the starlight, and a smaller part of the starlight is filtered through the outer layers of the planet’s atmosphere, and the gases in the atmosphere absorb some of the light, leaving thread-like imprints on the starlight that are low in brightness at certain colors, or wavelengths. , which facilitates the discovery of habitable planets.
Scientists revealed that many exoplanets are very close to their parent stars, which helps the “powerful telescope” to distinguish them.
James Webb is particularly suitable for studies of the atmospheres of exoplanets. Because it works in infrared.
