Tuesday, 21st of November, 16.00
(16.00 Coffee & Cake in the foyer, 16.30 talk & discussion)
Lecture Hall III
What can we learn about giant planets‘ origins from their present-day atmospheres? And what can we learn about habitability from “Earth cousins”, planets that are a little bigger or a little hotter than the Earth?
The past 25 years have revealed a diversity of exoplanets far beyond what was imagined from the limited sample in the Solar System. Laura Kreidberg from University of Heidelberg will provide some historical context on these two questions, share a few preliminary results from the first James Webb Space Telescope observations of transiting planets, and conclude with a long-term perspective on exoplanet atmosphere characterization through the 2040s, including the search for biosignatures in the atmospheres of potentially inhabited planets.