If we want to know about the conditions for life on an Earth-like exoplanet, can’t we just take a picture of it? One where we can see continents, clouds and potential biospheres?
The short answer is we can’t. The long answer as to why not is found in today’s bite.
In today’s paper, we take a look at how pesky clouds might actually be a good thing when it comes to detecting biosignatures in exoplanet atmospheres with NASA proposed next generation space telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
Today we interview Professor Dimitri Mawet, the David Morrisroe Professor of Astronomy at Caltech, a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a plenary speaker at #AAS246
Today, we interview Dr. Kate Follette, who is an Associate Professor of Astronomy at Amherst College, about her Plenary Lecture at #AAS245
The first directly imaged hierarchical quadruple system: two stars, each with a substellar companion!
Observations from both space and ground,
a planet have finally found!
Astrometric inspection
leads to imaging detection,
of a Jupiter with slightly thin clouds!