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NASA’s Webb telescope maps weather on planet 280 light-years away

May 1, 2024 Duncan Sandes

Researchers have successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b....

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Exeter Astrophysicist awarded prestigious honour from the Royal Astronomical Society  

January 15, 2024 Duncan Sandes

One of the world’s leading experts on the celestial objects, brown dwarfs, has joined the likes of Albert Einstein, Edwin...

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NASA’s Webb Findings Support Long-Proposed Process of Planet Formation 

November 8, 2023 Duncan Sandes

The quest to gain a greater understanding of how planets are formed has made a new significant breakthrough, thanks to...

This illustration conceptualizes the swirling clouds identified by the James Webb Space Telescope in the atmosphere of exoplanet VHS 1256 b. The planet is about 40 light-years away and orbits two stars that are locked in their own tight rotation
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Intricate details of far-away planet’s atmosphere revealed through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

March 22, 2023 Duncan Sandes

Scientists have identified the intricate features of a distant planet’s atmosphere, revealing clouds made from silicate particles (grains of sand)...

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