The Featherweight Giant: Unraveling the Atmosphere of a 17 Myr Planet with JWST
Pa Chia Thao et al 2024 AJ 168 297 A purported hot Jupiter gets rebranded as a low-density precursor to a sub-Neptune that may lose its atmospheric envelope entirely within a billion years. The post…
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