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TESS has found thousands of possible exoplanets: Which ones should JWST study? (phys.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To me, its not so much about getting there now. Its that JWST (and the space telescopes soon to follow) should be able to analyze their atmosphere's for life. If we can survey 1,000's of exoplanets, we should finally know how common simple single cell life is in the universe.

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