Canada’s NIRISS on Webb finds water in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-96 b!

2022-07-12 – Join Dr. Sarah Gallagher, Science Advisor to the CSA President, and Dr. Nathalie Ouellette, Canadian Webb outreach scientist and coordinator at the Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the Université de Montréal, as they share data collected by Canada’s instrument NIRISS on the James Webb Space Telescope.

As the most powerful space telescope ever built, Webb is set to reveal the hidden universe in unprecedented detail. Webb is an international collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency.

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Version française :    • L’instrument canadien NIRISS sur Webb...  

Canadian Space Agency, NASA, ESA, STScI, Christine Daniloff/MIT, Julien de Wit, NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, T. Pyle

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👉 Science images from the James Webb Space Telescope: https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satelli...
👉 NIRISS Transmission spectrum of exoplanet WASP-96 b: https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/multime...
👉 NIRISS transit light curve of exoplanet WASP-96 b: https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/multime...
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