For the first time, astronomers have likely detected an atmosphere on a rocky planet around another star.
But what a strange planet! 55 Cancri e seems to be blanketed in carbon dioxide gas bubbling out of a global ocean of lava. webbtelescope.org/contents/news-…

Hi all, I learned from Mark Marley that all of the out of print Arizona Space Science Series books are available to freely download as PDFs, including some classics like Jupiter, Saturn, and the first four Protostars and Planets books. Many others!
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Now to apply select JWST exoplanet spectra ranges and look for interesting features

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Running JWST JDAT cube fitting under Jupyter Notebooks.
All M1 iMac CPU’s maxed out.

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Next #ExoExplorers talks are Friday May 17, 2024, 2-3pmET/11am-12pmPT:
'Demographics of Earth-sized Planets in the Habitable Zone, from Kepler to the Habitable Worlds'
Galen Bergsten &
'Methylated Gases: A Class of Exoplanet Biosignatures'
Michaela Leung
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2023 IAU PhD Prize Winners Announced

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Congratulations to Postdocs Luhn & Martiniez from
@uciphysastro who swept the 2024 UCI Postdoctoral Scholar Research Symposium: Jacob Luhn took 1st for oral presentation & Raquel Martinez 1st among posters! Both in exoplanet science. physics.uci.edu/node/14844

JWST Exoplanet Spectra Targets

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Wow, this weekend the sky really put on a show for us! 🎆Check out these incredible photos & videos of the northern lights: from a colleague in Tucson and stunning footage from Kitt Peak National Observatory . There's no way you'll want to miss this! ✨

📹: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
📷: R. Sparks

Charity Woodrum is graduating with her PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Her advice for other astronomy students: “Seek out collaborative environments and people. I chose Steward because of how collaborative the department is.” Read her full interview: bit.ly/3Wxmoob

Python code for JWST spectra:

Work in progress:
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