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The passage directly reports likely methane hydrocarbon signatures in an atmosphere on a planet transiting a white dwarf. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:7b3434be96c8497b899e888b031be0c2a43866bde8c11f957b3860b3d6cb1a2e

We saw the telltale signatures of small cloud particles and hydrocarbons, most likely methane, which is the first time we have seen an atmosphere on a planet transiting a dead star.