University of Michigan: Traces of Water, Temperature Variations Confirmed in Super-Hot Gas Giant's Atmosphere
June 01, 2023
June 01, 2023
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 1 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:
While water vapor was previously detected in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-18b--an ultrahot gas giant 10 times more massive than Jupiter--University of Michigan scientists have confirmed that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope unveiled once-hidden water features that had eluded the ground-based Hubble Space Telescope.
Located 400 light-years away, WASP-18b orbits its . . .
While water vapor was previously detected in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-18b--an ultrahot gas giant 10 times more massive than Jupiter--University of Michigan scientists have confirmed that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope unveiled once-hidden water features that had eluded the ground-based Hubble Space Telescope.
Located 400 light-years away, WASP-18b orbits its . . .