Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM Not a week goes by without JWST finding something new and press-worthy. Given the cost of this telescope, this is as it should be.  And weirdly, at least some of the things has found are not aliens despite people’s best attempts to say they were aliens. Case in point, JWST discovered that the planet K2-18b has the molecule dimethyl sulfide in its atmosphere. This is a hycean world, with a massive liquid-water ocean and hydrogen-rich atmosphere. It would be amazing if this pretty common kind of planet can support life, and dimethyl sulfide made a lot of people...

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