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Potential Atmosphere Detected on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140b
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Enrico de Lazaro
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Astronomers have detected evidence of a variable atmosphere on the exoplanet LHS 1140b, located in the habitable zone of a nearby star. Observations suggest the planet may lose and regain helium due to stellar radiation.
Using spectral data from the Magellan Clay telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, astronomers detected helium escaping from LHS 1140b , a rocky exoplanet that orbits in the habitable zone of the nearby low-mass star LHS 1140.
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