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Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday January 08, 2023 @10:26PM (#34306373)
> is the James Webb currently capable of direct spectrography of exoplanets?

Yes [1].

[1] https://www.sciencenews.org/article/james-webb-space-telesco...

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Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ... by ethbr0 on Sunday January 08, 2023 @10:31PM (#34306416)
That's sheer insanity. It's mind boggling that at that distance (and therefore footprint on the optical elements) you can directly resolve something even as small as 7x Jupiter.
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Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ... by nick889996544 on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:07AM (#34311906)
Yes, but... Wolf 1069B is much smaller and closer to its star than this one, so we probably couldn't observe it with Webb.
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