Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have characterized the atmosphere of a hot super-Neptune exoplanet designated WASP-166 b. As a result, they found that the atmosphere of this ...

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Humanity’s first close-up images from Neptune came 34 years ago from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. The images shows bright cirrus clouds high in its atmosphere above most of its methane.

It took this image of Neptune and its moon Triton, one of 77 composite photographs that appeared in Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System, before speeding towards interstellar space. Despite its ...

Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b, is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf Orkaria, located just 48 light-years from the ...

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps ...

Waterworld: up to 50% of the atmosphere of K2-18b may be composed ... worlds are large planets believed to resemble Jupiter or Neptune Many giant planets have been found orbiting very close ...

That puts it in the category of “super-Earth” or “sub-Neptune.” Published this week in Nature, a new paper contains observations that show the exoplanet may sustain a gaseous atmosphere.

Feb. 2, 2024 — Astronomers have shown new atmospheric detail in a set of 15 exoplanets similar to Neptune. While none could support humanity, a better understanding of their behavior might help ...

Scientists are also intrigued by the different cloud structures, which should tell them something novel about the workings of Neptune's atmosphere. Beyond the planet itself are seven of the giant ...