This exoplanet weather forecast by the James Webb Space Telescope calls for sandy skies and a clear (alien) sunset

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This exoplanet weather forecast by the James Webb Space Telescope calls for sandy skies and a clear (alien) sunset

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a weather forecast for the exoplanet WASP-94Ab, a world with clouds of sand in the morning that gradually give way to a clear sky at sunset. …

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a weather forecast for the exoplanet WASP-94Ab, a world with clouds of sand in the morning that gradually give way to a clear sky at sunset. It is the first time that the daily cycle of weather has been observed on a hot Jupiter exoplanet . Furthermore, the clear evening sky has provided astronomers with an unobscured view of WASP-94Ab's atmospheric composition, finding it to be closer to that of our own Jupiter than previous inaccurate …

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