Webb Telescope Makes Planet Unlike Anything in Our Solar System Shed Some Cool Secrets

40 light years away from Earth, circling a small star in the constellation of Ophiuchus, there's a super-Earth called Gliese 1214 b. Also known as GJ 1214 b, it was discovered in 2009 and has been a favorite object of study for astronomers ever since. But only now, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), do we get to learn some of its secrets. GJ 1214 b is part of a family of (continue reading...)