Telescope captures information about lonely Jupiter-like gas giant

Science and news outlets, including MSN, highlighted the international research collaboration by a University of Cincinnati student that used the James Webb Space Telescope to study a Jupiter-like planet 901 light years away.

Paul Smith is studying geosciences. Previously, he earned a bachelor's degree in physics and astrophysics, also in UC's College of Arts and Sciences.

Smith and his research partners are studying five planets outside our solar system. All are gas giants like Jupiter. Using spectrography sensors on the telescope, researchers studied the atmosphere of the distant planet using light from its star that briefly passed through its atmosphere more than 900 years ago.

They presented their findings on the exoplanet's atmosphere at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Denver in April.

Featured image at top: An artist's rendering of a Jupiter-like planet known as TOI-2031Ab. Photo/NASA