detected this way. they range from smaller than earth size to jupiter size. >> so eileen showed me this yesterday. >> look how long it is, too. >> we're hoping to find and identify the pool of transiting planets in the habitable zones of stars. not too hot and not too cold but just right for life. the goldilocks zone. >> one system that had two viable planet candidates that were very exciting. >> yeah. >> you want to study these candidates with the james webb space telescope. >> yes. >> actually, the question often comes up, how much time are we going to get for exoplanets. you know, if we find a rocky planet with a thin atmosphere in the habitable zone of an m star, do you have any idea how much telescope time we'll need to look at that atmosphere? >> let's kill it. >> given that our own atmosphere contains thousands of gases, we expect alien atmospheres to also contain thousands of gases. and my job is to figure out how