Researchers Develop a Way to Check the Weather on a Exoplanet
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A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin has made a major breakthrough in the study of distant cosmic bodies, having managed to decipher the weather conditions of a substellar object. Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have developed a new approach to tracking atmospheric changes by registering the minute fluctuations in the brightness of so-called brown dwarfs. The vector of the study is the object SIMP 0136, lo…
Researchers Develop a Way to Check the Weather on a Exoplanet
Scientists from Trinity have developed a powerful way to unravel the changing weather patterns on distant worlds. Using this approach, they discovered that the weather on a well-studied brown dwarf, “SIMP 0136”, previously linked with Northern Lights-like phenomena, is largely shaped by just two dominant processes: changes in temperature and the vertical structure of its clouds.
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed how the "time" works in the atmosphere of the brown dwarf SIMP 0136, about 20 light-years. Most of the variations observed are due to two processes: changes in temperature and vertical structure of the clouds. The data reveal three recurring meteorological states as the object rotates.
An international group of researchers used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to decipher the climate of the exoplanet SIMP J0136+09, a brown dwarf located about 20 light-years from Earth.
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