CHAMPs
Consortium on Habitability and Atmospheres of M-dwarf Planets
News
2023
Oct 11
NASA’s Webb Identifies Its First Exoplanet — And It’s the Size of Earth »
A team led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has confirmed the discovery of an exoplanet — a planet orbiting another star — by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Formally logged as LHS 475b, the planet orbits a red dwarf star roughly 41 light-years away, and it’s almost exactly the size of Earth, clocking in at 99% of our planet’s diameter.
Overview
The Consortium on Habitability and Atmospheres of M-dwarf Planets (CHAMPs) is an interdisciplinary research team whose goal is to address the broad science question: Can M-dwarf planets support life, and if so, how do we best observe and characterize them?
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