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[Stephen Clark] NASA launches new mission to get the most out of the James Webb Space Telescope (arstechnica.com)

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[–] Robomekk@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Quick summary seems to be that they’re using it to monitor the stars that Webb is seeing planets pass in front of. To better model that stars behaviour with prolonged observation. To better understand whether signals that look like water and methane are really from the passing planet, or just from changes in the star’s activity over time.