Nature research paper: Thermal Emission from the Earth-sized Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b using JWST
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planets have been observed with the transmission spectroscopy technique using the Hubble or Spitzer Space Telescopes, but no atmospheric features have been detected or strongly constrained .
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