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TRAPPIST-1 just reminded us, again, that space is unforgiving. Last year, a team of astronomers used JWST to measure the starlight shining around the edges of TRAPPIST-1b as the rocky little planet passed in front of its host star. Astronomers call this a transit, and the idea is to measure the spectrum of the starlight…