Tag: silicate clouds
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Fiery Auroras on a Rogue Planet: JWST Reveals SIMP-0136 Weather
A fiery aurora reveals a weather-rich rogue planet In a striking departure from typical planet weather reports, astronomers studying the lone world SIMP-0136 — a rogue planet that orbits nothing but the darkness of interstellar space — have detected Northern Lights–style auroras and a surprisingly dynamic atmosphere. The observations come from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb…
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Astronomers Stunned by Fiery Auroras on a Starless Rogue Planet SIMP-0136
Astronomers using a space telescope have turned their gaze toward SIMP-0136, a nearby rogue planet without a parent star, and witnessed a spectacle more akin to Earth’s auroras than a typical wanderer in deep space. The exquisite sensitivity of the instruments aboard the James Webb Space Telescope enabled researchers to track minute brightness changes as…