JWST Impact on Astronomy

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JWST exoplanet breakthroughs

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3 years of James Webb Space Telescope data on alien worlds now available online

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has had an impact on astronomy since its launch on Christmas Day 2021 .

Joshua Lothringer , an assistant astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and exoplanet expert, has created the first "go-to hub" for the public and scientists to see which types of planets are being observed by humanity's most powerful space telescope.

The dashboard features a striking and frequently updated GIF that visualizes the planets studied, having them appear by name and according to their mass and time it takes them to orbit their parent star.

JWST wasn't actually designed to study exoplanets, but its primary goal was to find distant galaxies.

The telescope has been designed to observe the cosmos in infrared light.

The infrared region is where we can measure molecules like carbon dioxide and methane.

Lothringer: "My favorite exoplanet research so far has probably been the Early Release Science program on WASP-39b".

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