The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
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Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...
The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...
Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...
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"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.
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