dr-becky 1 year ago
astrophysicist #Space and Time

JWST has discovered its First Exoplanet and it's "Earth-like"

This telescope just blows my mind every time it finds something! So much information in such little time! Imagine what this machine can find in 10 years!

00:00 - Introduction

00:24 - Announced at AAS conference in Seattle last week

00:58 - Where in the sky is LHS 475b?

01:34 - How they knew where to look with JWST (the TESS mission)

03:18 - Why they care about planets around red dwarf stars

05:07 - What data did they take with JWST?

05:58 - What that data tells us about LHS 475b

09:01 - The atmosphere of LHS 475b - how JWST reveals this

10:19 - What is LHS 475b's atmosphere made of?

13:52 - How we could work out which atmosphere model is right

14:30 - What this discovery means for exoplanet studies

15:32 - Brilliant

16:57 - Bloopers

Dr Becky Smethurst
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