GJ 504 b, the rosy world that defeated the world's biggest ground telescopes for years, gave up its first spectrum to JWST in a few hours of telescope time. The model that matched the light needed clouds made of salt.
For more than a decade, one of the coldest worlds ever photographed around another star kept slipping out of reach. Astronomers could see the faint pink dot of GJ 504 b, nicknamed the Pink Planet, bu… [+7140 chars]
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