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Meet a Saturn-sized exoplanet with Earth-like temperatures

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Meet a Saturn-sized exoplanet with Earth-like temperatures
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Artist’s concept of a gas giant exoplanet orbiting its star. A new study from PennState University shows that one such world, the Saturn-sized exoplanet TOI-199b, has near-earthly temperatures and a methane atmosphere. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ PennState.

TOI-199b is a Saturn-sized exoplanet 330 light-years from Earth.
Unlike most gas giants, its temperature isn’t far from Earth’s.
New Webb observations revealed this world’s atmosphere contains methane.

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