He recently showed that commercially available telescopes and some colored filters can be used to map the ammonia and cloud-top pressure in Jupiter's atmosphere. The results not only revealed that ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 light-years from Earth,” NASA announced. Researchers recently used the ...

Jupiter, the gas giant, hides mysteries beneath its colorful bands that have intrigued scientists for centuries. A recent discovery, stemming from a technique accessible to amateurs, challenges ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic ... a mass that's around 13 times the mass of Jupiter, but it is around the same size as ...

A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 ... rising from deeper in the atmosphere. Not all of the light curves can be explained just yet, and don’t relate to clouds or temperature.

Why did Jupiter in our solar system not ... However, variations in temperature or chemical composition within each atmosphere can radically skew the abundance of measurements that we are trying ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has explored the atmosphere ... and 80 Jupiter masses. One subclass of brown dwarfs (with effective temperatures ...

Scientists know this because of the presence of hydrogen sulfide in its atmosphere ... astro-nickname of "hot Jupiter". Even on its dark side, HD 189733 b reaches temperatures north of 650 ...

A thick atmosphere made mostly of carbon dioxide covers Venus, trapping heat and raising surface temperatures ... Jovian planets include Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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