{{Short description|British astronomer}} {{use dmy dates |date=September 2020}} {{Infobox academic | name = Jane Greaves | honorific_suffix = | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | education = {{plainlist | * University of Oxford * Queen Mary University of London }} | occupation = Astronomer | workplaces = {{plainlist | * University of St Andrews * Cardiff University (2015–present) }} | spouse = | parents = | children = }} '''Jane Greaves''' is a British astronomer who is based at Cardiff University. While at the University of St Andrews she led the team which discovered a protoplanet within the protoplanetary disk around the young star HL Tauri.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rincon |first=Paul |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7326318.stm |title=Astronomers see 'youngest planet' |work=BBC News |date=2 April 2008 |access-date=3 July 2017 }}<br/>- {{cite news |last=Highfield |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Highfield |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3338137/Baby-planet-found-around-star-HL-Tau.html |title=Baby planet found around star HL Tau |work=Daily Telegraph |date=2 April 2008 |access-date=3 July 2017 }}</ref>
In 2017, she was awarded the Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics for her "significant contribution to our understanding of planet formation and exoplanet habitability through her seminal imaging of debris discs around Sun-like stars and solar system bodies using far-infrared telescopes".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iop.org/about/awards/silver-subject-medals/fred-hoyle-medal-and-prize-recipients |title=Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize recipients |work=Awards |publisher=Institute of Physics |access-date=15 September 2020 }}</ref>
In 2018, she announced preliminary results from studies of the presence of phosphorus in supernova remnants, indicating that the level of phosphorus in the Crab Nebula is much lower than in Cassiopeia A, leading to speculations that a paucity of phosphorus might limit the formation of alien life.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://phys.org/news/2018-04-paucity-phosphorus-hints-precarious-path.html |title=Paucity of phosphorus hints at precarious path for extraterrestrial life |work=Phys.org |date=4 April 2018 |access-date=5 April 2018 }}<br/>- {{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/05/alien-life-may-unlikely-previously-thought-according-new-study/ |title=Alien life may be more unlikely than previously thought, according to new study |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=5 April 2018 |access-date=5 April 2018 }}</ref>
On 14 September 2020 her team announced the discovery of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus.<ref>{{cite news |last=Perkins |first=Sid |date=14 September 2020 |title='Curious and unexplained.' Gas spotted in Venus's atmosphere is also spewed by microbes on Earth |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/curious-and-unexplained-gas-spotted-venus-s-atmosphere-also-spewed-microbes-earth |work=Science |access-date=14 September 2020}}</ref> Subsequent analysis led Greaves' team to reduce their initial estimates of phosphine levels, with some astronomers disputing the presence of phosphine entirely.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chang |first1=Kenneth |last2=Stirone |first2=Shannon|date=22 June 2021 |title=Life on Venus? The Picture Gets Cloudier |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/science/venus-life-phosphine.html |work=New York Times |access-date=6 March 2022}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/greavesj1 Jane Greaves] profile at Cardiff University * {{twitter|jgreaves6}}
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