TRAPPIST-1: What’s Inside Matters
Is it possible for the interior of a rocky planet to affect its atmosphere? Find out with today’s paper!
The air is thin!
Today’s paper describes JWST observations of the atmosphere of an Earth-like exoplanet.
The Fires Within: Investigating the Atmospheres of Inflated Hot Jupiters
The biggest exoplanets could have heat in their deep interiors – what impacts might that have on their atmospheres?
History lessons from chemical elements
Chemical elements are pretty good history teachers! Today’s paper describes how chemical abundances can tell us about the history of where a planet formed.
A Smoggy Day on a Young Exoplanet
Transmission spectroscopy shows /
no gases or features, although /
whether sunspots or hazes /
or both (how in blazes?) /
this atmosphere’s spectrum is sloped!
Could Rings Explain an Intriguing Exoplanet Spectrum?
Interpreting observations of an exoplanet’s atmosphere can be tricky, but in today’s astrobite, planetary rings could be the missing piece of the puzzle