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NASA’s Webb Reveals Steamy Atmosphere of Distant Planet in Detail

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star. The observation, which reveals the presence of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of ...

July 17, 2022

Troy Oakes

Astronomers Discover First Cloudless, Jupiter-Like Planet

Harvard & Smithsonian astronomers have detected the first Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze in its observable atmosphere. The findings were published this month in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Named WASP-62 b, the gas giant Jupiter-like planet was first detected in 2012 through the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) South survey. Its atmosphere, however, had never been closely studied ...

January 26, 2021

Troy Oakes