On June 12, 2022 the first images came back from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Already among those pictures was something astonishing.
For along with those first images, James Webb had measured the atmosphere of a planet around another star.
And detected water.
Already James Webb was studying the atmosphere and potential living conditions of a planet around another star!
How did they do this?
Spectra.
With a spectrum, you have the chemical signature of the object that produced the spectrum, if the light passed through it.
So if you take the spectrum of a planet around another star in the right way, you have light that had passed through its atmosphere.
And you have the chemical signature of that planet's atmosphere.
Including, in this case, water.
And if you detect oxygen not in combination with anything else but oxygen, that's life.
That's alien life.
Because the oxygen combines too easily with other elements.
In its pure form, combined with nothing but other oxygen, it must be renewed.
Replenished.
By plant life.
This is how the James Webb Space Telescope is searching for E.T.
Right now.
And if they don't detect E.T.?
They already have studied the environment of more than one planet around another star.
They will know how common it is for planets around other stars to have water in their atmosphere, for example.
And carbon dioxide.
This is happening right now.
Right now.
The James Webb Space Telescope is perfect for studying planets around other stars.
It is very powerful.
And it is an infrared telescope.
Planets glow brightly in the infrared.
But I had no idea that the James Webb Space Telescope was this powerful.
We are living in a wonderful, exciting era!
And America is still leading the way!
In outer space, through NASA, America is still leading the way.
As Japan, South Korea and Bollywood lead where Steven Spielberg and The Beatles once led, in outer space, through NASA and Space X, America is still leading the way!
God loves you! Give E.T. my regards!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson