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Exoplanet Atmospheres and The Search For Life

Exoplanets orbit distant stars many light years away. Over the past few years, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has peered into their atmospheres in unprecedented detail. It has shown us what these distant worlds are made of, what exotic reactions are active, how they look like in the infrared, and what clouds they host. I will show some of the more intriguing results, before addressing the question of finding life: where should we look, and how would we know when we find it? JWST has already observed potentially habitable planets, but the results are not the easiest to interpret. Michael Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. He grew up in Toronto and worked at Microsoft as a software engineer before obtaining an astronomy PhD at Caltech. His research focuses on observing exoplanet atmospheres with big telescopes, especially the space telescope JWST and the 10 meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii. He is especially interested in whether small, rocky planets can hold on to atmospheres. In his spare time, he likes fishing and flying remote controlled planes.