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AAS Science Writer Briefing Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30 th Anniversary Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy Nikole K. Lewis Cornell University

Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy · Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary 1992 - First Exoplanets Discovered 1990 Launch 2000 –First Exoplanet Transit

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Page 1: Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy · Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary 1992 - First Exoplanets Discovered 1990 Launch 2000 –First Exoplanet Transit

AAS Science Writer Briefing

Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary

Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy

Nikole K. LewisCornell University

Page 2: Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy · Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary 1992 - First Exoplanets Discovered 1990 Launch 2000 –First Exoplanet Transit

AAS Science Writer Briefing

Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary

1992 - First Exoplanets Discovered

1990 Launch

2000 – First Exoplanet Transit Detected

1995 -First Exoplanet Around Sun-like Star Discovered

Page 3: Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy · Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary 1992 - First Exoplanets Discovered 1990 Launch 2000 –First Exoplanet Transit

AAS Science Writer Briefing

Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary

Hubble studies exoplanets primarily in two ways…

Page 4: Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy · Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary 1992 - First Exoplanets Discovered 1990 Launch 2000 –First Exoplanet Transit

AAS Science Writer Briefing

Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary

Hubble has provided some of our first view of distant worlds

Page 5: Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy · Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary 1992 - First Exoplanets Discovered 1990 Launch 2000 –First Exoplanet Transit

AAS Science Writer Briefing

Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary

2001 – First Detection of an Exoplanet Atmosphere

Page 6: Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy · Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary 1992 - First Exoplanets Discovered 1990 Launch 2000 –First Exoplanet Transit

AAS Science Writer Briefing

Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary

Hubble has probed exoplanet atmospheric composition…

Page 7: Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy · Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary 1992 - First Exoplanets Discovered 1990 Launch 2000 –First Exoplanet Transit

AAS Science Writer Briefing

Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary

Hubble heralded the era of comparative exoplanetology…

Page 8: Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy · Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary 1992 - First Exoplanets Discovered 1990 Launch 2000 –First Exoplanet Transit

AAS Science Writer Briefing

Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary

Hubble has revealed atmospheric escape from exoplanets…

Page 9: Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy · Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary 1992 - First Exoplanets Discovered 1990 Launch 2000 –First Exoplanet Transit

AAS Science Writer Briefing

Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary

Hubble has mapped distant worlds…

Page 10: Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy · Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary 1992 - First Exoplanets Discovered 1990 Launch 2000 –First Exoplanet Transit

AAS Science Writer Briefing

Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary

Hubble has shown us the color of the skies in other worlds…

Page 11: Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy · Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary 1992 - First Exoplanets Discovered 1990 Launch 2000 –First Exoplanet Transit

AAS Science Writer Briefing

Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary

Hubble has provided the first probes of habitable zone worlds

K2-18bTRAPPIST-1

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AAS Science Writer Briefing

Unveiling the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary

Hubble will continue to provide an important window into worlds beyond our solar system…

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