Using all four telescope units of ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile astronomers were able to create a 3D map of the ...

Astronomers have mapped the weather of a distant exoplanet for the first time, uncovering a world of extreme winds, searing heat, and unexpected atmospheric layers. The study, conducted using the Very ...

Meet Tylos: a gas giant 900 light years away and with a climate never seen before on any planet known to scientists.

Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

这种极端的温差使得白昼面的铁和其他金属被高温蒸发，随后被强劲的风吹向黑夜面，凝结成液态金属雨落下。研究团队利用智利阿塔卡马沙漠北部的甚大望远镜（VLT）和其搭载的ESPRESSO仪器，成功创建了WASP-121b大气层的三维地图。他们发现，这颗行星的 ...

Astronomers have peered into an alien planet's atmosphere and found extreme weather unlike anything in the solar system.

Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so ...

最近，科学家们在研究一颗名为WASP-121b的系外行星时，发现了令人震惊的现象——这颗行星竟然会下铁雨！这颗行星距离地球约900光年，是一颗“超热木星”，质量约为木星的1.2倍。由于其轨道极为接近宿主恒星，公转周期仅为30个地球小时，导致其一面永远 ...

天文学家近日宣布了一项突破性的发现，他们成功地对一颗太阳系外行星的大气层进行了前所未有的详细研究。这颗名为WASP-121b的行星，因其极端的气候条件而一直备受瞩目，现在又被揭示出受到了异常强大的飓风影响。

Astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an alien planet's atmosphere for the first time, revealing a layered system of ...