Alien haze, cooked in a lab, clears view to distant water worlds
Research by Hopkins scientists will help model how water exoplanets form and evolve—findings that could help in the search for life beyond our solar system
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Research by Hopkins scientists will help model how water exoplanets form and evolve—findings that could help in the search for life beyond our solar system
<p>Scientists have simulated conditions that allow hazy skies to form in water-rich exoplanets, a crucial step in determining how haziness muddles important telescope observations for the search of habitable worlds beyond the solar system.</p>
This illustration conceptualizes the swirling clouds in the atmosphere of exoplanet VHS 1256 b identified by the James Webb Space Telescope. The planet is
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