[Rockhounds] The James Webb Space Telescope's Hunt for Habitable Exoplanets Finds Disappointment Again

[Paul]

JWST’s Hunt for Habitable Exoplanets Finds Disappointment, Again
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that
TRAPPIST-1 c, the second world in a seven-planet system, lacks an
atmosphere, Scientiftic American, June 21, 2023
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwsts-hunt-for-habitable-exoplanets-finds-disappointment-again/

Life in the cosmos: JWST hints at lower number of habitable planets
Alexandre Witze, Nature News, June 19, 2023
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01983-1

Webb Rules Out Thick Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere for Rocky Exoplanet
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, June 20, 2023
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/webb-rules-out-thick-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-for-rocky-exoplanet
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-rules-out-thick-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-for-rocky-exoplanet

The open access paper is:

Zieba, S., Kreidberg, L., Ducrot, E., Gillon, M., Morley, C., Schaefer,
L., Tamburo, P., Koll, D.D., Lyu, X., Acuña, L. and Agol, E., 2023.
No thick carbon dioxide atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c.
Nature, pp.1-4.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06232-z

Yours,

Paul H.