New Study Reveals Active Volcanoes on Venus, Narrowing James Webb Space Telescope Targets.
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Scientists have identified five exoplanets that are most likely to resemble Venus in terms of their radii, masses, densities, the shapes of their orbits, and distances from their stars. These "exoVenuses" are potential targets for the James Webb Space Telescope, which could reveal valuable insights into Earth's future and our risk of developing a runaway greenhouse climate as Venus did. The observations may reveal biosignature gases in the atmosphere of an exoVenus, such as methane, methyl bromide or nitrous oxide, which could signal the presence of life.
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