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NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000

NASA’s Roman Mission Shares Detailed Plans to Scour Skies

Does Distant Planet Host Volcanic Moon Like Jupiter’s Io?

Why NASA’s Roman Mission Will Study Milky Way’s Flickering Lights

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This artist map of the Milky Way shows the location of one of the farthest known exoplanets, lying 13,000 light-years away. Most of the thousands of exoplanets discovered to date are closer to our solar system, as indicated by the pink/orange areas.

A transmission spectrum made from a single observation using Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) reveals atmospheric characteristics of the hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b.

The filters on NASA's Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument's Color Filter Assembly each block all but a specific wavelength of light. Many of the filters appear dark in this photo because they are transparent only to infrared light.

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