The Lava Planet

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i asked lisa to help me imagine what could be there. I want to use the james web space telescope to look at k two one forty one b, a lava planet. The things that i'm hoping to look for is maybe clouds destroyd but they wouldn't be like any clouds you've ever imagined before. Instead of having o clouds of water molecule, like we have here, these planets would have clouds made of rock.

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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