Celebrating 1 year of JWST science 🥳 #shorts #jwst

From Dr. Becky. It’s been 1 entire year since we saw the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, JWST, surpassing all our expectations! In that year we’ve seen JWST break records on the most distant galaxy known, characterise many an exoplanet’s atmosphere and find evidence for photochemistry occurring in the atmosphere of one,…

How do we define a second? #shorts #science

From Dr. Becky. How do we define a second? It used to be as a fraction of the length of a day, i.e. how long it takes Earth to turn once on its axis. But that wasn’t precise enough for scientists, especially since the length of Earth’s day changes! So instead, since the 1950s the…