Tag: WASP-107b

Artistic rendition of the exoplanet WASP-107b and its star, WASP-107. Some of the star's light streams through the exoplanet's extended gas layer. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, M. Kornmesser.

‘Cotton-Candy Planet’: WASP-107b – One Of The Least Dense Exoplanets Known

MessageToEagle.com | January 18, 2021

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers from Canada, the U.S., Germany and Japan, discovered that the core mass of exoplanet WASP-107b is much lower than previously thought

The exoplanet WASP-107b is a gas giant, orbiting a highly active K-type main sequence star. The star is about 200 light-years from Earth. Using spectroscopy, scientists were able to find helium in the escaping atmosphere of the planet -- the first detection of this element in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, M. Kornmesser

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Hubble Detects Helium In Atmosphere Of Exoplanet WASP-107b For The First Time

MessageToEagle.com | May 5, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – Helium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-107b has been detected for the first time by astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the discovery demonstrates the