JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away

The team even managed to calculate how the atmosphere keeps the clouds aloft. The equatorial wind is apparently strong enough to push the heavy mineral droplets through the night side faster than gravity can pull them down. Finally, the researchers ran an experiment where they took their precise JWST data and reanalyzed it without splitting it into two to resolve the limbs. “This had a huge effect on our understanding of the composition of this planet,” Mukherjee says. …