NASA Goddard - NASA’s Webb Spots Swirling, Gritty Clouds on Remote Planet:
[www].nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-s-webb-spots-swirling-gritty-clouds-on-remote-planet
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Looks like this may be among the first discoveries of rocky planets roughly like Earth. The silica, high water and CO concentrations might mean lots of volcanism.
At only 150 million years old, it has just barely been formed out of stellar dust. It will be billions of years before life appears, and an Oxygen event will be required first - as happened on Earth.
Will we survive as a species long enough, and become mature enough to eventually be benign visitors to the new life forms there? It might be only three generations of space flight away from Earth. 2.35x10E14 miles.