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As of September 2026: Employer of co-author Uma Gorti
The James Webb Space Telescope surveyed 72 young sun-like stars and found their planet-forming disks lose gas through two distinct wind mechanisms in sequence. Magnetic fields drive strong jets and molecular winds in the youngest systems, then high-energy starlight heats the thinning gas until it escapes in a process called photoevaporation.
Updated Sep 28
As of September 2026: Provided modeling expertise
Pluto's surface was supposed to be inert. New analysis of New Horizons imagery reveals dark streaks on Sputnik Planitia, the huge nitrogen glacier, that look like liquid nitrogen recently flowed across the ice. It is the first evidence that liquid has moved across Pluto's surface in the modern era.
Updated Sep 17
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