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Monday, June 3, 2024 7:30PM

Name

Clouds and Chemistry of Small Nearby Worlds

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Featuring Dr. Eileen Gonzales, San Francisco State University

Astronomers are looking for exoplanets—planets beyond our Solar System—with a goal to one day find Earth 2.0. JWST has provided us with unprecedented amounts of information on the atmospheres of exoplanets and their analogs—brown dwarfs. Brown Dwarfs are unique objects, too massive to be a planet but just too small to be a star, and astronomers can characterize their atmospheres in incredible detail. They range widely in temperature, from as cold as a warm day at the south pole to twice as hot as molten lava! With such a diversity in temperature, these objects have atmospheres very different from our own. In this talk, Dr. Gonzales will discuss how we can learn about the atmospheres for a variety of brown dwarfs and what exciting things we have discovered about them.

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