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The James Webb Space Telescope was used to take a closer look at Trappist-1. A team of scientists lead by Ward Howard used the JWST to characterize the flares that come from the volatile star, and while doing so have created a new way to look at the exoplanets atmospheres that orbit flaring red dwarf stars. CHARACTERIZING THE NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRA OF FLARES FROM TRAPPIST-1 DURING JWST TRANSIT SPECTROSCOPY OBSERVATIONS https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.03792.pdf