Look at that data!🤩 NASA Webb Telescope has made a direct observation of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere! WASP-39b is a gas giant 700 light-years away. Detecting CO2 there means Webb can similarly probe the atmospheres of smaller, rocky planets. 😍go.nasa.gov/3PIRGSc

#TBT to the #AAS240 Splinter Session on Future Science with TESS! TESS Postdoc Michelle Kunimoto laid out EM2/EM3 predictions for habitable zone planets and TESS pipeline/research scientist Michael Fausnaugh highlighted TESS synergies with NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory