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Beyond Hubble

Sit back and settle in for a tour of the chemical analysis instruments aboard the James Webb Space Telescope and the techniques being used to explore the planets beyond our Solar System.

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Gibb, B.C. Beyond Hubble. Nat. Chem. 14, 1207–1209 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-022-01080-2

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