NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals a strange atmosphere on a hellish lava planet

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Imagine the year 2158. You're pursuing a PhD in planetary volcanology at the University of Utopia Planitia on Mars, surviving on freeze dried ramen while searching for the perfect exoplanet to study. After finishing your research on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, you need a rocky world beyond our solar system with intense volcanism driven not by gravity, but by the searing heat of a nearby star. Better yet, it has to be within 50 light years so your faster than light (FTL) research mi...

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