Unveiling Planet Atmosphere and Formation with James Webb Space Telescope. Leveraging Australia's largest exoplanet science program on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, this Discovery Project will ai

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Unveiling Planet Atmosphere and Formation with James Webb Space Telescope. Leveraging Australia's largest exoplanet science program on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, this Discovery Project will aim to measure the atmospheric makeup of planets around other stars. It tackles fundamental questions, including how planets form, and how their atmospheres are shaped by their early formation and evolution. The project will harness Webb's unprecedented capabilities to boost Australian expertise in exoplanet atmosphere science. By collaborating with world-experts, this project will train the next generation of Australian astronomers, and will provide a future framework for studying Solar Systems around other stars.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 5101 - Astronomical Sciences. Lead: Dr Xu Huang