Seeing the atmospheres of rocky exoplanets isn't going to be simple, even for JWST's powerful instruments.A team of astronomers hoping to measure the atmosphere of a rocky exoplanet called GJ486b recently spotted evidence of water vapor in their data.What wasn't clear was whether they'd found water vapor in the planet's atmosphere or in the outer layers of the red dwarf star it orbits.
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