James Webb Space Telescope Made a Salty Discovery in This Unusual Exoplanet’s Skies
JWST data give the first direct evidence that salt clouds create the planet’s pink haze, researchers said, after spectroscopy of the coldest known companion.
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For the first time, the James Webb space telescope has detected clouds of salt in the atmosphere of a cold planetary object. The discovery, published in The Astronomical Journal, reveals the exotic chemistry of the exoplanet GJ504b — known as the ‘Rose Planet’ — a world 57 light years away from astronomers. A ‘almost planet’ 57 light years from Earth GJ504b orbits a star similar to the Sun and possesses such a vast mass —25 times Jupiter’s — tha…
JWST finds salt clouds in the atmosphere of a strange Pink Planet
GJ 504 b has been one of astronomy’s stranger nearby worlds for years, a faint pink companion circling a sunlike star 57 light-years away. It looked unusual, stayed frustratingly out of reach, and raised a deeper question: what kind of object is it, really? Now the James Webb Space Telescope has given astronomers their clearest look yet, revealing an atmosphere rich with water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide, ammonia and other molecules, along wi…
Pink bright, extremely cold and full of salt clouds: The James Webb telescope has analyzed the atmosphere of the exoplanet GJ504b in detail. The measurement data help science to better understand the chemical development of distant worlds. (Read more)
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