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Vaporized Metal in the Air of an Ultra-Hot Exoplanet – SciTechDaily
An international team of researchers led by the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS of the University of Bern and the University of Geneva studied…
The top of the planet’s atmosphere is heated to a blazing 2,500 degrees Celsius, hot enough to boil some metals. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STSci)
An international team of researchers led by the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS of the University of Bern and the University of Geneva studied the atmosphere of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121b. In it, they found a number of gaseous metals. The results are a next step in the search for potentially habitable worlds.
WASP-121b…
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