For the first time, scientists have been able to map the atmosphere of WASP-121b in 3D and what they found sounds like ...
According to a new paper published in the journal Nature, astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of the layered ... Kepler can tell us how big a planet is, but it doesn't know what the planet ...
Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists ...
Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a wedding cake on a ferociously ...
The planet orbits its star at about 2.5 per cent of the distance of Earth to the sun. It is about a third closer to its star than our solar system's innermost planet Mercury is to the sun - so ...