An artistic rendering of the ultra-hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-18b. (Image credit: Keith Miller/Caltech/IPAC) There’s an intriguing exoplanet out there—400 light-years out there—that is so ...
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Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with distinct temperature zones—one so scorching that it breaks down water vapor, ...