Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ...
The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
Astronomers have peered into an alien planet's atmosphere and found extreme weather unlike anything in the solar system.
Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so closely that a year lasts just 30 Earth hours. One side of the planet is ...
"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.
Tylos is a gas giant 900 light-years away - and astronomers have now mapped its astonishing atmosphere in 3D for the first ...
Learn more about the atmosphere of WASP-121b, or Tylos, whose winds are layered like no other planet’s.
Scientists say that the new 3D understanding of the planet represents a major breakthrough for our understanding of the ...
Image an alien planet where savage winds rip through the atmosphere carrying molten iron and titanium particles. Such a ...
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