Webb Sees Jupiter-Size Exoplanet Being Roasted by Its Star
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Webb Sees Jupiter-Size Exoplanet Being Roasted by Its Star
HD 80606b has one of the most extreme orbits of any known exoplanet and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope just caught it getting flash-fried as it whipped past its star. The post Webb Sees Jupiter-Size Exoplanet Being Roasted by Its Star appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.
News for the Day and the Hour Latest News Today's James Webb Space Telescope brought a revolutionary vision of one of the most extreme exoplanets discovered to date. For the first time, scientists were able to observe in detail how the temperature and chemical composition of HD 80606 b, a gas giant planet located 217 light years from Earth, vary abruptly as the planet approaches its host star. The research, presented on June 16 at the annual co…
Imagine a planet whose temperature rises by 600 °C in a few hours. This is the extreme spectacle that the James Webb telescope has observed and which reveals the secrets of a distant world pushed into its last entrenchments.
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