James Webb Space Telescope predicts clouds of molten rock on this blisteringly hot exoplanet
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a weather report for a distant planet.
The powerful space telescope predicts extreme wind speeds, blistering hot temperatures and blankets of rock clouds for the world, called Wasp-43b. As such, the extrasolar planet, or 'exoplanet', shows just how strange alien planets outside the solar system can be.
WASP-43b orbits a star located about 283 light-years from Earth; In fact, it is so close to its star that it completes an orbit around Earth in just about 19 Earth hours. This proximity, equivalent to about 2.1 million kilometers, means that the planet, with ...