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The James Webb Space Telescope — already famous for its mesmerizing images of the cosmos — has done it again. The telescope has captured the first unambiguous evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the Solar System.

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Nature 609, 229-230 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02350-2

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