The Lava Planet Is the Perfect Place for the Web Space Telescope

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The lava planet is one of the most extreme places we've discovered in the galaxy. If life exists there, which is unlikely, it would be unlike any life that we can think of. It's just a perfect place to learn how to study atmospheres on other planets and really refine the s of analyzing them.

After decades of planning, NASA is finally (finally!) set to launch the successor to the Hubble. The new Webb telescope will be a paradigm shift for astronomy, exploring places in the cosmos that have been completely invisible to us until now. But first, it has to safely reach a point nearly a million miles away from the Earth.

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