We know, we know — we did exoplanets last time. But that was the current state-of-play and a 2024 exoplanets wrapped update. In this episode, Emily looks to the future! She does a deep dive into the promise of the just wonderful JWST, as it prods exoplanets in ways they’ve never been prodded before.
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Things we discuss in this episode:
The JWST mission
The Transit method
Exoplanet Phase Curves
Exoplanet GJ1214b and the phase curve paper
Exoplanet WASP 39b
Direct imaging of exoplanets
Exoplanet HIP65426b
The JWST first release images
The WASP 96-b “dodgy graph” (see Brundsen, 2025)
Exoplanet WASP 43b’s day and night (and the Nature paper)
The Trappist 1 system