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Hubble Telescope Detects Stratosphere on Huge Alien Planet

  

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Via:  matti-viikate  •  8 years ago  •  3 comments

Hubble Telescope Detects Stratosphere on Huge Alien Planet

This artist's illustration shows the "hot Jupiter" exoplanet WASP-121b, which presents the best evidence yet of a stratosphere on an exoplanet.

Credit: Engine House VFX, At-Bristol Science Centre, University of Exeter

A huge, superhot  alien planet  has a stratrosphere, like Earth does, a new study suggests. 

"This result is exciting because it shows that a common trait of most of the atmospheres in our solar system — a warm stratosphere — also can be found in exoplanet atmospheres," study co-author Mark Marley, of NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley,  said in a statement .

"We can now compare processes in exoplanet atmospheres with the same processes that happen under different sets of conditions in our own solar system," Marley added. [ Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets


https://www.space.com/37705-exoplanet-stratosphere-detected-wasp-121b.html


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Matti Viikate
Freshman Silent
link   seeder  Matti Viikate    8 years ago

I'm pretty happy with the speed of these news coming up!

 

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
link   Kavika     8 years ago

Good info, good article...

 

 
 
 
321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu
Sophomore Participates
link   321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu     8 years ago

Bid deal, it won't be humans new home anyway. 

After we ruin this one we're done.

 
 

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