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Scientists spotted an unheard-of planet. Webb just peered into it.

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LTT 9779 b is nearly 30 times Earth 's mass.

It's tidally locked to its star, meaning one side of it is seared by its star while the other is dark and cooler.

A year lasts under a day on this scorching planet, dubbed "LTT9779 b" Scientists have now used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer into the planet's atmosphere.

"We might learn things we never thought about," Mercedes López-Morales , an exoplanet researcher and astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics-Harvard & Smithsonian , previously told Mashable . Topics NASA .

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