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124. Deb Haarsma | James Webb Space Telescope

Language of God

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Is the Web Telescope Able to See Planets?

The easiest way to see planets is by the way they pass in front of their star and then behind it. The web telescope will be able to pick out a subset of those that are good for observing with this method. And what they're going to do is especially look at the atmospheres of those planets. So far we've been using that method to detect and discover these planets, to see which stars have planets going around them.

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