"Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow." Isidore of Seville 

Dr. Jake D.Turner 

 NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Astronomy

Cornell University

jaketurner(at)cornell.edu

astrojaketurner(at)gmail.com

IM-1 has landed on the Moon!!!!!!!!! 

NASA is going back to the Moon after 51 years! I'm an exoplanet science advisor for NASA's ROLSES low-frequency radio telescope that will land on the south pole of the Moon onboard Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission. This mission will be NASA's first radio telescope on the Moon and will be setting the foundation for more telescopes to come

Hello! My name is Jake Turner (he/him) and I'm currently a NASA Hubble/Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University and a member of the Carl Sagan Institute. I'm currently studying the magnetic fields and atmospheres of exoplanets. My other research interests include studying the orbital decay of exoplanets, Titan's atmosphere/surface, and the magnetosphere of Jupiter. My most notable research accomplishment was the first potential detection of an exoplanet in the radio (see video below), which has been a 50-year-long quest.

I have been a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell since 2018. I finished my PhD from the University of Virginia in the summer of 2018. I spent two years of my PhD as a visiting student at LPC2E/CNRS in France.  I received my undergraduate degree from Steward Observatory at University of Arizona and had a postbac research position for two years after graduation at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.  I'm originally from Walsenburg, CO. 

More details about my research can be found here. My research has been covered by CNN, Forbes, Sky and Telescope, and many other media outlets across the world. Most notably, my potential exoplanet radio detection was highlighted on NPR as one of 2020's best scientific discoveries. 

A list of my publications can be found here or at my ADS Library.  

An international team has just reported the first potential signs of radio emission from a planet beyond the solar system. The Carl Sagan Institute's Dr. Jake Turner, who led the research team, discusses the importance of this discovery with Dr. Ryan MacDonald.

The ROLSES radio telescope is launching aboard the IM-1 lunar mission, informed by Cornell astronomer Jake Turner’s expertise in studying exoplanets via radio transmission. Aiming to help understand the effect of the lunar environment on future lunar surface radio observatories, this mission is a pathfinder for large lunar farside radio telescopes in the future.

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