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Detecting Biosignatures in Exoplanets with JWST
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has the technical capability to detect biosignatures in Earth-like planets orbiting non-sun-like stars, such as oxygen or methane, but due to limited telescope time and overwhelming demand for it, it would take approximately 200 transits to detect them. However, it is possible to construct a space-based telescope by using existing ground-based mirrors.

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