Aurora Kesseli is a research scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at IPAC/Caltech and also works as a scientist on the NASA Exoplanet Archive. Aurora is primarily an observational astronomer and her research interests include exoplanet atmospheres and brown dwarfs.
In this episode Ben and Aurora discuss nervous launch moments, the difference between a red and a brown dwarf and what it means to get "JWST time".
What you will hear in this episode
Introduction to Aurora Kesseli
Artemis 1
The NASA Exoplanet Archive
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
NASA Exoplanet Archive secrecy?
What brown dwarfs are
A day in the life of Aurora
Space telescopes
Where to point JWST
How JWST works
Earth 2.0
Outreach
Favourite sci-fi and predicting the future
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