Ep. 650: Did JWST Work?
Astronomy Cast
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Hubble Deep Field Imagery
This was a 12 point five hour exposure from webb, which is the equivalent of a three week observation by hubble. It's extraordinarily important to note, this is not a deep field hubble deep field images. They instead went to a spectra of a wasp 96 b - one of two known exo planets that don't have clouds in their atmosphere. This is a hot saturn orbiting it star every few days on an orbit that makes mercury's orbit look huge. So they spotted a ton of water vapor and demonstrated that j w s t can indeed take sectra of extra solar planets atmospheres.
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