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Webb Finds Water-Ice Clouds on Nearby Super-Jupiter

Universe Today·Laurence Tognetti, MSc·about 1 month ago
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The giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—have challenged our understanding of planetary formation and evolution. Specifically, their atmospheric formations and compositions have provided awe-inspiring images from spacecraft and given scientists key insights into the interior mechanisms of these massive worlds. But what about exoplanets? What can their atmospheres teach scientists about their formation, evolution, composition, and interior mechanisms? And how do longstanding exoplanet models stack up against the real thing? Now, an international team of researchers might help close this knowledge gap by studying the atmosphere of a super-Jupiter exoplanet using one of NASA’s most powerful space telescopes. Their findings were recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters and hold the potential to challenge our understanding of planetary atmospheric mechanisms, compositions, and models.…

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