First-ever: Webb captures direct image of carbon dioxide outside solar system
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The James Webb Space Telescope captured the first direct images of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere 130 light-years away. This discovery provides evidence that giant planets in the HR 8799 system formed through core accretion, similar to Jupiter and Saturn, and reveals higher levels of heavy elements than previously thought.
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