‘Historic’ James Webb Images Show Exoplanet In Unprecedented Detail

[ScienceNoob]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/sep/01/historic-james-webb-images-show-exoplanet-unprecedented-detail

Something I can understand! It's amazing what modern science can achieve, a picture of a planet from 400 light years away!

[jim360]

Nice. I'm impressed how fast the new stuff is coming!

Just to show off for a bit, it seems that I know one of the authors of the paper :)

[ScienceNoob]

You know someone who worked on this? That's amazing! How come? Are you like an actual scientist or something? Did you work on this yourself?

[davebro]

He's her window cleaner! LOL

[davebro]

400 light years! Blimey that's almost before I was born. ( I know it's distance not time - just funnin with ya.)

[jim360]

In the order that you asked:

-- Yes, but not very well, I think we both helped teach a topic together as PhD students, but anyway I recognised the name instantly (in the source paper linked at the end of the article, they aren't mentioned in the article itself).

-- Yes, currently working as a particle physics postdoc somewhere.

-- But no, I never touched astronomy. Definitely was interested in it as a child, but it's been ages since I decided to focus on the world of the very small instead of the very large!

[Old_Geezer]

It's no good, I still can't tell the mountains from the ocean. :-(

[Bazile]

pssst

I have it on good authority , that's it's no longer there