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Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone (science.org)
WillAdams 16 minutes ago [-]
Is it wrong that I was hoping for something along the lines of:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-would-we-know...

except where they are noting how helium is being allowed to escape and not being captured as was previously done by the now shut down U.S. National Helium Reserve.

ck2 6 minutes ago [-]
wow 50 light years is indeed "nearby" in relative terms

nearly 6x the size of earth though, good luck trying to launch a probe off that surface

NASA has a neat "exoplanet catalog" which is about to leap in size next few years with new telescopes and techniques

* https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/lhs-1140-b/

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