NASA’s Webb Investigates Eternal Sunrises, Sunsets on Distant World

Near-infrared spectral analysis of terminator confirms differences in morning and evening atmosphere Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have finally confirmed what models have previously predicted: An exoplanet has differences between its eternal morning and eternal evening atmosphere. WASP-39 b, a giant planet with a diameter 1.3 times greater than Jupiter, but similar mass […]
Posted on July 15, 2024
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

1
3
7
38
4
3
1
27
113
5
281
14
1
10
4
1
386
1
17
10
6
Io
5
13
1
6
1
9
1
10
202
1
13
67
661
6
2
30
1
46
17
1
2
11
29
1
159
53
13
210
14
14
2
1
3
1
14
10
1
3
2
3
1
1
362
2
1
4
3
20
3
1
6
4
3
1
2
1
8
233
17
62
21
6
1

Blog Posts

Newsletter Archive