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Jupiter-like Cloudless Exoplanet Discovered 575 Light Years Away From Earth
Cloud-free exoplanets are exceedingly rare but astronomers have discovered one such planet 575 lightyears away from Earth which bears resemblance to Jupiter.
Cloud-free exoplanets are exceedingly rare but astronomers have discovered one such planet 575 light years away from Earth which bears resemblance to Jupiter in size. According to a study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, the recent discovery was made by astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard & Smithsonian. A team of fifteen scientists led by Munazza Alam, who is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and a third-year graduate student in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University, revealed that they used Hubble Space Telescope to record data and observe the planet using spectroscopy.