Webb space telescope reveals a scorching “super-Earth” that looks like Mercury

Using MIRI (Mid Infrared Instrument) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by former MPIA (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany) PhD student Sebastian Zieba (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, USA) and Laura Kreidberg, MPIA Director and study PI (principal investigator), investigated the surface composition of the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b. Moving beyond studies of atmospheres, this work focuses on...