Now everything in nature interests us. Fundamentally. We don't even know why.
And also, it can be flowers, it can be planets. But everything interests us just because it exists.
So, when we look outside
for these new planets and stars,
we can understand ourselves.
To understand who we are and where we come from, we can not just rewind.
It would be fantastic if we could see the movie of our history and just go back. But we cannot.
So the way to do it is to look at other systems that are forming.
Webb has a unique sensitivity, and it's really important to see
those details that have never been captured by any other spacecraft.
The reason I study complex organic molecules
is because we want to understand
how the chemical environment that evolved from the simple molecules
like water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide,
to more evolved systems.
So, I work on observations related to fundamental processes that happen in planet formation,
especially pebble drift theory, as a process for forming planets and disks.
Dust grains are basically the fundamental building blocks of our universe. And they participate in a lot of astronomical
processes, from forming molecules to the evolution of galaxies. But its sources are still not clearly known.
We can combine together physics,
we can combine chemistry, and also biology, in order to understand how
simple chemical systems evolved into complex
chemical systems and how this promotes, somehow, the origin of life.
I believe that JWST has a unique potential to tell us this story,
and I think it really will come in the next few years.