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AAS Science Writer Briefing

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

Hubble’s Exoplanet Science Legacy

Nikole K. LewisCornell University

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

AAS Science Writer Briefing

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

Hubble studies exoplanets primarily in two ways…

AAS Science Writer Briefing

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

Hubble has provided some of our first view of distant worlds

AAS Science Writer Briefing

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

2001 – First Detection of an Exoplanet Atmosphere

AAS Science Writer Briefing

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

Hubble has probed exoplanet atmospheric composition…

AAS Science Writer Briefing

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

Hubble heralded the era of comparative exoplanetology…

AAS Science Writer Briefing

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

Hubble has revealed atmospheric escape from exoplanets…

AAS Science Writer Briefing

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

Hubble has mapped distant worlds…

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…

AAS Science Writer Briefing

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

Hubble has provided the first probes of habitable zone worlds

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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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