[Interview] The Future of Exoplanet Research

What's the best way to use telescope time to search for exoplanets? How many will we be able to find in a best-case scenario? What future missions will help us with that? Answering all these questions and more with Dr Ben Hord from NASA Goddard. 👉 Identification of the Top TESS Objects of Interest for Atmospheric Characterisation of Transiting Exoplanets with JWST https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.09617.pdf 🐦 Ben Hord on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/benhord 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:49 Deciding which exoplanets to observe 09:56 Getting the masses 15:13 Using telescope time 19:28 What do we really know about exoplanets 26:40 Exhausting our search capabilities 31:10 Studying hot Jupiters 35:00 Perfect exoplanet searching mission 40:34 Current obsessions 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/6b377MO20uE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)