'Is Earth weird or is Venus the weird one?'
A team of astronomers has proposed using the James Webb Space Telescope to peer at five planets that exist in the so-called "Venus Zone".
"Detecting those molecules on an exoVenus would show that habitable worlds can exist in the Venus Zone and strengthen the possibility of a temperate period in Venus’ past," Colby Ostberg, a UCR Ph.D. student, explained in aOstberg led a study aimed at identifying five Venus-like planets from a list of 300 that would be ideal candidates for future James Webb observations. Their search highlighted criteria including size, mass, and orbital paths.
“It could be that one or the other evolved in an unusual way, but it’s hard to answer that when we only have two planets to analyze in our solar system, Venus and Earth," he explained. "The exoplanet explorations will give us the statistical power to explain the differences we see."
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