“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength that water does not absorb will probe deeper. If you put those together, you ...
Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system. The investigation has ...
A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...
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First 3D Map of an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere Revealed

The first world beyond our Solar System to be mapped in three dimensions a gas giant almost ten times more massive than ...
The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...
A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.
NASA's IMAP mission and two other space weather probes took flight atop a Falcon 9 rocket today (Sept. 24). SpaceX just sent three space weather probes to the final frontier. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted ...
A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiter planets is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimension, a team of astronomers says. What's more, the researchers are ...