 |  JWST to inspect atmospheres of gas giant exoplanets
 17 July 2018
In April 2018, NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Its main
goal is to locate Earth-sized planets and larger “super-Earths” orbiting nearby stars for
further study. One of the most powerful tools that will examine the atmospheres of some
planets that TESS discovers will be NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Since
observing small exoplanets with thin atmospheres like Earth will be challenging for Webb,
astronomers will target easier, gas giant exoplanets.
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