The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical portrait of a distant world’s skies.
Astronomy & Telescopes
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Early Release Science Of The Exoplanet WASP-39b With JWST NIRISS
Transmission spectroscopy provides insight into the atmospheric properties and consequently the formation history, physics, and chemistry of transiting exoplanets. However, obtaining precise inferences of atmospheric properties from transmission spectra requires […]
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Direct Evidence of Photochemistry In An Exoplanet Atmosphere
Photochemistry is a fundamental process of planetary atmospheres that is integral to habitability, atmospheric composition and stability, and aerosol formation. However, no unambiguous photochemical products have been detected in exoplanet […]
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Detecting Planetary Mass Companions Near The Water Frost-line Using JWST Interferometry
JWST promises to be the most versatile infrared observatory for the next two decades. The Near Infrared and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, when used in the Aperture Masking Interferometry (AMI) […]
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Hazy With A Chance Of Star Spots: Constraining The Atmosphere Of The Young Planet, K2-33b
Although all-sky surveys have led to the discovery of dozens of young planets, little is known about their atmospheres. Here, we present multi-wavelength transit data for the super Neptune-sized exoplanet, […]
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Investigating the Hot Molecular Core, G10.47+0.03: A Pit of Nitrogen-bearing Complex Organic Molecules
Recent observations have shown that Nitrogen-bearing complex organic species are present in large quantities in star-forming regions.
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Rotational Spectra of Interstellar N- and CN-PAHs: Pyrene and Coronene
The detection of benzonitrile (C6H5CN), 1- and 2-cyano-naphthalene (C10H7CN) in the cold, dark molecular cloud TMC-1 at centimetre (cm) wavelengths has opened up prospects for the detection of other N- […]
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Detection of Complex Nitrogen-bearing Molecule Ethyl Cyanide Towards the Hot Molecular Core G10.47+0.03
The studies of the complex molecular lines towards the hot molecular cores at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths provide instructive knowledge about the chemical complexity in the interstellar medium (ISM).
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Broadband Vortex Fiber Nulling: High-dispersion Exoplanet Science At The Diffraction Limit
As the number of confirmed exoplanets continues to grow, there is an increased push to spectrally characterize them to determine their atmospheric composition, formation paths, rotation rates, and habitability.
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Stellar Cocoon with Organic Molecules at the Edge of our Galaxy
For the first time, astronomers have detected a newborn star and the surrounding cocoon of complex organic molecules at the edge of our Galaxy, which is known as the extreme […]