JWST detects life-supporting elements in the atmosphere of an exoplanet
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled something intriguing yet again. The telescope has detected carbon-based molecules in the atmosphere of an exoplanet that could be harboring oceans. Dubbed K2-18 b, this alien world could classify as a Hycean exoplanet, one which could possibly contain a "hydrogen-rich atmosphere and a water ocean-covered surface," per NASA. With a mass 8.6 times that of Earth, this exoplanet lies 120 light-years away from us.
