'A new era in exoplanet research,' says Princeton member of the Webb Space Telescope team that found carbon dioxide out there
September 03, 2022
September 03, 2022
PRINCETON, New Jersey, Sept. 3 (TNSjou) -- Princeton University issued the following news:
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured definitive evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of WASP-39b, a gas giant planet orbiting a sun-like star 700 light-years away.
"This discovery heralds the dawn of a new era in exoplanet research," said Tansu Daylan, a Princeton astrophysicist who is one of the co-authors of the paper in Nature detailing t . . .
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured definitive evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of WASP-39b, a gas giant planet orbiting a sun-like star 700 light-years away.
"This discovery heralds the dawn of a new era in exoplanet research," said Tansu Daylan, a Princeton astrophysicist who is one of the co-authors of the paper in Nature detailing t . . .