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HEADLINE: James Webb Telescope Probes Potentially Habitable Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e GUEST NAME: Néstor Espinoza SUMMARY: Dr. Néstor Espinoza's team uses the James Webb Space Telescope to study TRAPPIST-1e, 40 light-years away in the habitable zone. Using tr

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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HEADLINE: James Webb Telescope Probes Potentially Habitable Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e
GUEST NAME: Néstor Espinoza
SUMMARY: Dr. Néstor Espinoza's team uses the James Webb Space Telescope to study TRAPPIST-1e, 40 light-years away in the habitable zone. Using transit method analysis, they've excluded certain atmospheric compositions like cloudless Venus-like atmospheres. The team employs TRAPPIST-1b as a "stellar anchor" to correct distortions, keeping alive hopes of finding atmospheres on red dwarf planets.
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This is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Batchelor. Hotel Mars, episode N. David Livingston is here,

0:32.0

my colleague and co-host and co-pilot, and we're in our star machine. We're going 40 light years out to a red dwarf called

0:41.9

Trappist, and that red dwarf has a number of exoplanets. And thanks to our guide to those exoplanets

0:51.7

this morning, we're going to learn of a new discovery that is, well, promising.

0:58.1

I'll be careful. We welcome Dr. Nesta Espino's, a mission scientist for exoplanet science at the

1:05.5

Space Telescope Science Institute, an associate astronomer at the Institute, Associate

1:10.8

Research Scientists at Johns Hopkins University.

1:14.5

Professor, a very good evening to you. Thank you very much.

1:18.1

Trappist is a red dwarf. Trappist 1E, one of the planets circling Trappist.

1:24.9

Every six days, I read, is of great interest to you and your astronomer colleagues.

1:31.3

Why? What have you discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope? What might you have discovered?

1:36.3

Good evening to you.

1:37.3

Good evening. This is an exciting discovery. Yeah. Indeed, Trapis I is one of the most exciting

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