Scientists Are Taking This Webb Signal Seriously… What Did It Find?

The path from where the science stands right now to the point where someone can say with confidence whether Trappist-1e has an atmosphere is measured in years, not months, and possibly in decades if the answer requires the Habitable Worlds Observatory to settle it. That's a long time. It's also almost nothing measured against the age of the question itself. The Webb data already gives scientists a real-world case to test their models against. Even the smallest details, the depth of a light curve, the shape of a spectrum, the missing hydrogen lines, tell them which ideas hold up and which don't. ▀▀▀▀▀▀ Timestamps; 0:00 James Webb On Trappist 1 5:05 Seven Worlds, One Star 10:42 Bare Rock After Bare Rock 16:05 The Star That Won't Be Quiet 22:30 Using a Dead World to Find a Living One ▀▀▀▀▀▀ Fexl Spanish:    / @fexl_es   Fexl Portuguese:    / @fexlpt   Fexl Ukraine:    / @fexl_ua