Spectroscopist, University of Chicago
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Last updated Nov 13, 2026
Co-author of the original 1986 prediction
Astronomers calculated in 1986 that the trihydrogen cation would emit a faint rotational glow. For four decades no telescope or laboratory saw it. Then JWST found 26 of those spectral lines in the shocked gas around a newborn star.
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