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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...
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The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It's a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 ...
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Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body ... but it is around the same size as the solar system gas giant. Discovered in 2003 ...
"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.