The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the best tool we’ve ever had to answer a fundamental question: could there be another planet like Earth?

At last month’s Space Talk, held at LSC After Dark, we were joined by Dr. Emily Rickman, a European Space Agency Fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute, who explored this very question!

Watch a segment from Dr. Rickman’s presentation, as she explores the JWST’s first observations of the exoplanet Wasp 96b, and looks forward to what it might reveal.

Join us for our next Space Talk: “What Secrets Will the James Webb Space Telescope Reveal?” on Sept. 1, 2022, led by Dr. Kristen McQuinn from Rutgers, only at LSC After Dark. Click here to learn more and get tickets now.

(Video was produced using an Evans and Sutherland Digistar 6 System)

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