NASA telescope to help solve odd signal from sweltering, 4,400F planet

For nearly twenty years, scientists have tracked puzzling signals from a massive planet known as '55 Cancri e.'

The fiery 'hell planet' — a so-called super-Earth nearly 40 light years away — can reach temperatures above 4,400 degrees Fahrenheit on its daylight side.

Soon, with help from the Space Telescope (JWST), researchers hope to fully decode those signals, proving whether or not the planet completely generates and sheds its own atmosphere under the intense heat of its parent star.

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