A new study out of Harvard and MIT warns there may be a glaring error in the models currently used by astronomers to interpret data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The researchers determined in their study that researchers’ current best opacity model, which they use to suss out how photons pass through a given material, “is not up to par with the precision and quality of data we have from the Webb telescope,” MIT’s Julien de Wit said. To more accurately decrypt important data like the makeup of planets’ atmospheres, there need to be some serious updates.Read Long Article
