“One of the Best Habitable Zone Planets” Likely Has an Atmosphere, Says New Exoplanet Research (thedebrief.org)

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Your favorite exosolar system and mine -- TRAPPIST-1 -- has long been known to have a few plants in its Goldilocks zone where water can exist in liquid form. New analysis of data from the JWST's scan of planet TRAPPIST-1e now shows that in addition to surface water (in the form of liquid water or ice), it also has some form of atmosphere, increasing the chances that it could possibly harbor life.

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[-] StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Is there any way for us to be able to tell if it has an extant of strong magnetosphere? Or is being able to tell that still outside of our reach