Astronomers shocked by how these giant exoplanets formed

Astronomers shocked by how these giant exoplanets formed

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed like Jupiter, by slowly building solid cores. That’s unexpected because these planets are far bigger and orbit much farther from their star than models once allowed.

Astronomers have discovered how “super Jupiters” form around distant stars

Astronomers have recently found new evidence to explain how massive “super Jupiters” form around distant stars Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers studied a planetary system 133 light-years away and found that its giant planets likely formed in a similar way to Jupiter. The discovery centres around the detection of sulfur in one of the planets’ atmospheres. This finding offers important clues about how these eno…