exoplanet, 3D and Atmosphere

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.
The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
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 ...
Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by ...
Scientists have mapped the 3D structure of exoplanet WASP-121b's atmosphere, revealing powerful winds, extreme weather, and a ...