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Backstop in reply to @frankenbike

My PhD was on exoplanet atmospheres

Mine was on an exoplanet atmosphere telescope design. When I was working alongside the dedicated atmospheres guys they showed whole spectra plotted against two or three data points!

JWST launches next year? And The ELT should help as well in 10 years or so.

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frankenbike in reply to @Backstop

Which telescope?

they showed whole spectra plotted against two or three data points!

Yeah, pretty silly... I steered well clear of any observational stuff, pure theory for me

JWST was supposed to launch in 2018... They've recently halted work due to coronavirus so guessing it's going to be delayed yet again!

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Backstop in reply to @frankenbike

It was a novel blue sky (black sky?) project to look at a space based IR interferometer .

Have you seen the starshade proposed by Kasdin? Could potentially allow for imaging of planetary discs...

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