Tag: Jupiters

This is an artist's illustration of the planet KELT-20b which orbits a blue-white star. The giant planet is so close to its star (5 million miles) the torrent of ultraviolet radiation from the star heats the planet's atmosphere to over 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. This creates a thermal layer where the atmosphere increases in temperature with altitude. This is the best evidence to date—gleaned from the Hubble Space Telescope—for a host star affecting a planet's atmosphere directly. The seething planet is 456 light-years away. Credit: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI)

Hubble Probes Extreme Weather On Ultra-Hot Jupiters

MessageToEagle.com | April 7, 2022

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In studying a unique class of ultra-hot exoplanets, NASA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers may be in the mood for dancing to the

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WASP-33b: Aluminium Oxide Found In An Ultra Hot Jupiter

MessageToEagle.com | November 12, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – OSIRIS spectrograph on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) was used to study the chemical composition of a planet whose equilibrium temperature is around 3,200 °C. WASP-33, the