JWST discovered PHOTOCHEMISTRY in an exoplanet's atmosphere (this is a BIG deal) ft. Dr. Jake Taylor

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The first of my videos for "JWST month" on my channel celebrating one year since the launch of JWST!

Wakeford et al. (2018; Hubble detection of H20 in WASp-39b atmosphere) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.10529.pdf
Tsai et al. (2022; photochemistry in WASP-39b atmosphere) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.10490.pdf
Alderson et al. (2022; NIRSpec observations of WASP-39b) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.10488.pdf
Ahrer et al. (2022; NIRCAM observations of WASP-39b) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.10489.pdf
Rustamkulov et al. (2022; NIRSpec PRISM observations of WASP-39b) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.10487.pdf
Feinstein et al. (2022; NIRISS observations of WASP-39b) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.10493.pdf

NASA's JWST blog: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/
JWST's weekly observing schedule: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-ex...
JWST raw data archive access (public images available to download free) - https://mast.stsci.edu/portal/Mashup/...

For more info on Dr. Jake Taylor: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-peop...
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👩🏽‍💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.


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