Utah Valley University professor Joshua Lothringer was part of a team of scientists that discovered the presence of carbon dioxide on an exoplanet 700 light years from Earth, using the James Webb Space Telescope.
OREM — While growing up as a kid who loved science, Joshua Lothringer never would have anticipated he would be part of a team that discovered carbon dioxide on an exoplanet sitting in space 700 light years from Earth.
"It's not every day that you get a brand new space telescope like this," he said. "It's one of those things that happens maybe once or twice in a career, so you kind of cherish it while it's happening." While the light from an exoplanet is far too bright to be viewed by the human eye, scientists are able to detect them by tracking changes in the light spectrum from the exoplanet through the use of infrared cameras.
Using complex computer programs, Lothringer was able to document the light spectrum from the exoplanet. Lothringer said that hot Jupiter WASP-39b is like Jupiter in the sense that it's basically "a big gas ball" — a hot one, too, with its temperature coming in at approximately 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit, making it utterly uninhabitable.
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