Four hundred light-years away, a world twice the size of Jupiter glows like a forge. Now, thanks to the James Webb Space ...
A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery WASP-18b, a massive “ultra-hot Jupiter,” revealed striking temperature ...
A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.
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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 ...
When I was a kid, there were nine planets. Now we know of thousands! But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might ...