A rocky planet in its star’s ‘habitable zone’ could be first known to have an atmosphere

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A Goldilocks planet, perhaps. 

I like how they are using the other known rocky planets without much of an atmosphere to isolate the sun spot signals while transiting to help clean the data over the coming years to fine-tune Trappist 1-e’s signal, maybe even to even analyze the gases and atmospheric layers present as well.  

Good luck!

Holy shit! Trappist 1e! Nitrogen! Finally some good news. EDIT: Read the paper — it’s *either* a bare rock (like all other TRAPPIST planets), or Nitrogen rich atmosphere (like Earth). Less exciting, but at least there’s hope.