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"It Was a Crazy Idea": James Webb Space Telescope Confirms Dramatic Phenomenon On Pluto
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations indicate that Pluto’s atmosphere is unlike any other in the solar system, confirming a 2017 hypothesis and potentially revealing how the early Earth developed a habitable atmosphere from its nitrogen and hydrocarbon beginnings. Pluto is covered in a haze of nitrogen, methane, and carbon dioxide, whose individual particles regulate the atmosphere’s energy balance as they heat and cool. Other JWST ob…
The most recent observations of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an unprecedented phenomenon in Pluto: its atmosphere is cooled and heated not by gases, as on other planets, but by fog particles. This finding, confirmed in 2022 and 2023, marks a turn in the understanding of the frozen bodies of the outer Solar System. It all began in 2017, when astronomer Xi Zhang, from the University of California in Santa Cruz, proposed that…
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