Best spectrum ever obtained of planetary-mass object outside our solar system
Researchers observing with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere. The atmosphere is constantly rising, mixing, and moving during its 22-hour day, bringing hotter material up and pushing colder...
Planet spiraling to its doom discovered by UH astronomers
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet with a decaying orbit around a star that resembles a future version of our Sun.
JWST Takes Its First Exoplanet Image
A team including UH astronomers has taken the first-ever direct exoplanet image with JWST.
IfA alumnus lands Sloan Fellowship to expand extrasolar planet research
IfA graduate Brendan Bowler (PhD 2013) has received the esteemed Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics, an honor that recognizes outstanding early-career scientists.