February 7, 2022 Updates Posted on February 7, 2022 by Doug Loss Editor’s note: A high-energy view of exoplanets and their environments https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20220005 Direct emission spectroscopy of exoplanets with the medium resolution imaging spectrometer on board JWST MIRI https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa41663-21/aa41663-21.html Low-Power Laser Sailing for Fast-Transit Space Flight https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04188 Systematic modeling of electrostatic radiation shields for deep space flight https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0969806X22000494 Stellar Companions to TESS Objects of Interest: A Test of Planet-Companion Alignment https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph/new Searching for the origin of the Ehrenreich effect in ultra-hot Jupiters: Evidence for strong C/O gradients in the atmosphere of WASP-76b? https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02041 Detection of two additional circumbinary planets around Kepler-451 https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02118