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An Earthlike spectrum from JWST

An Earthlike spectrum from JWST
An Earthlike spectrum from JWST This graph shows what a red to mid-infrared transmission spectrum of an Earthlike exoplanet would look like to the James Webb Space Telescope. As sunlight is filtered through the planet’s atmosphere, different relative amounts of each wavelength of light make it through. Model data from T. Robinson, Northern Arizona University