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NASA’s James Webb Telescope Reveals a Giant Alien Planet That’s Not Quite Round

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NASA’s James Webb Telescope Reveals a Giant Alien Planet That’s Not Quite Round
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Weather maps of distant planets are a step closer after the James Webb Space Telescope distinguished hotter and cooler regions around the giant exoplanet WASP-17b. One side of WASP-17b’s atmosphere extends farther into space than the other, giving this intensely hot giant planet an uneven outline. Astronomers have now mapped that distortion with the James [...]

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