Is the JWST Now an Interplanetary Meteorologist?
The JWST has mapped a distant exoplanet's weather. It's a blistering hot world where 5000 mph winds whip around the planet constantly.
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The JWST has mapped a distant exoplanet's weather. It's a blistering hot world where 5000 mph winds whip around the planet constantly.
The JWST has performed a weather report for a distant hot Jupiter exoplanet, finding winds three times as fast as a jet fighter, clouds made of rock and temperatures hot enough to melt lead.
The CHEOPS mission has seen tantalizing hints of the rainbow-like glory effect over WASP-76b, an extreme world where iron rains heavily on one side of the planet.
Among the approximately 5,500 exoplanets discovered to date, Hot Jupiter-type planets are abundantly observed and...
This Super-Earth has something to tell us about the exoplanet population, but we need the JWST to reveal what that is.