WASP-96b's spectrum was one of the images featured in the initial science release from the
James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022. The spectrum confirmed the presence of
water, as well as providing evidence for "clouds and hazes" within the planet's atmosphere. While the light curve released confirms properties of the planet that had already been determined from other observations – the existence, size, and orbit of the planet – the transmission spectrum revealed previously hidden details of the atmosphere: the unambiguous signature of water, indications of haze, and evidence of clouds that were suspected based on prior observations. A study in 2023 measured the abundance of certain chemical species in the atmosphere of WASP-96b as seen in the table below. Models of the atmosphere with patchy clouds and hazes best describes the observations through the
James Webb Space Telescope. == See also ==