Exploring Rocky Worlds: On the Precipice of a New Frontier

Katherine Bennett, Johns Hopkins University
The simple, significant question, "Do other planets like Earth exist?" has slowly pushed from science fiction speculation into serious scientific inquiry. Having discovered thousands of planets around other stars, astronomers now think rocky planets are common in our Milky Way galaxy. The detailed and difficult exploration of these small worlds is boosted by the James Webb Space Telescope's ability to examine their atmospheres. Are these atmospheres thin and cold like Mars, thick and hot like Venus, or perhaps just right for life, like Earth? These answers will come over the next several decades as we survey and measure the landscape of rocky planets, and take important steps toward understanding habitability in the Milky Way.
4:39 - News from the Universe
15:35 - Main talk
1:14:33 - Live Q&A
Host: Frank Summers, Space Telescope Science Institute
Recorded live on Tuesday, April 4, 2023
More information: www.stsci.edu/public-lectures
#STScI #galaxies #astronomy #space #telescopes #MilkyWay #RockyPlanets #NASAWebb #JWST

[@keybutnolock]

Oh well - re-upload lost my time stamps. Good vid, great q&a, thanks for sharing.

[@hubblespacetelescope]

Thank you, I added them as chapters. On the re-upload each month Ill edit the chapters in from here on out, feel free to comment them as well! (each months video will be reuploaded, every month.)

[@keybutnolock]

@@hubblespacetelescope wow, thank you.

[@givemeliberti]

Enjoyed this talk so much and learned a lot!

[@Birbface]

great!

[@marinashilina1710]

Thank you for the great talk! I did't really understand how scientists get information about exoplanet's atmospheres, now I kinda do :) I wish the speaker will get her answers and share them with us someday.

[@alfredtetzlaf9163]

Terrific - Thank you to you all !

[@tomsmith4542]

VID starts at 4:50

[@you2tooyou2too]

We still have too many unknowns in the Drake formula.

[@ECHOCHAMBER.BAMBI.]

crab nebula is happy pis help hubble