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Explainers and notes

Interactive explainers and occasional notes on exoplanets, JWST and scientific machine learning.

Artist's render of the Milky Way galaxy

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Reading the air of other worlds

More than 6,000 planets are confirmed around other stars, and with JWST we can now study their air from hundreds of light-years away. An interactive introduction to transmission spectroscopy: how a dip in starlight turns into a chemical fingerprint of a distant atmosphere.