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Astronomers discover first cloudless, Jupiter-like planet: This marks the second time astronomers have ever observed a cloud-free exoplanet – Science Daily
Astronomers have detected the first Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze in its observable atmosphere.
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected the first Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze in its observable atmosphere. The findings were published this month in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.Named WASP-62b, the gas giant was first detected in 2012 through the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) South survey. Its atmosphere, however, had never been closely studied until now.
“For my thesis, I have been working on exoplanet characterization,” says…
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