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James Webb Space Telescope forecasts clouds of melted rock on this blisteringly hot exoplanet
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe JWST has performed a weather report for a distant hot Jupiter exoplanet, finding winds three...
JWST measures 'Hot Jupiter,' a distant exoplanet hot enough to forge iron
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThis fact implies that nearly 5,000 mph equatorial winds must routinely whip across WASP-43b, which...
Fiery 5,000 MPH Winds: Webb Maps Weather on Extreme Exoplanet WASP-43 b
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoWASP-43 b is cloudy on the nightside and clear on the dayside, with equatorial winds howling around the planet at 5,000 miles per hour. Take hot Jupiter ...
Planet where it's sunny every day spotted 280 light-years away
Newsweek· 6 days agoThis far-off mapping of the planet's weather was made possible thanks to the power of the James Webb...
Exoplanet WASP-43 b weather is hot and wild
EarthSky· 18 hours agoAn international team of astronomers did just that for the exoplanet WASP-43 b. The researchers said on April 30, 2024, that the tidally locked “hot Jupiter” is cloudy on its nightside, but clear on its dayside.
Forecast today: 2,300 degrees with 5,000 mph wind; Webb telescope gleans weather on planet 280 light...
Fox Weather via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWebb also measured the amount of water vapor and methane around the planet, providing more clues...
Astronomers map 8,000 kph winds on a giant alien exoplanet
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe seven known exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system...actual size of the TRAPPIST-1 system....
JWST Spots Planet With Temps Hot Enough To Melt Lead And Blustering 5000 MPH Winds
HotHardware· 4 days agoAn international team of researchers used NASA’s Webb space telescope to map the weather on a hot gas-giant exoplanet. WASP-43 b, as it's called, is similar in size to Jupiter
Is the JWST Now an Interplanetary Meteorologist?
Universe Today· 4 days agoThe JWST keeps one-upping itself. In the telescope’s latest act of outdoing itself, it examined a distant exoplanet to map its weather. WASP-43b is a hot Jupiter orbiting ...
Webb Telescope Maps Weather Patterns on Distant Planet With 5,000 MPH Winds
ExtremeTech· 4 days agoThe exoplanet in question, WASP-43 b (also known as Astrolábos), was discovered in 2011 by the Wide Angle Search for Planets. The exoplanet has been observed with instruments ...
