The dividing line between gas giant planets and failed stars is blurry at best. The isolated planetary-mass object SIMP ...
Previously thought to be defined by simple cloud patterns, NASA's JWST has unveiled the astonishing complexity of SIMP 0136, ...
Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the ... It's an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its host star so closely that a year there lasts only about 30 Earth ...
Scientists studying SIMP 0136, a free-floating planetary-mass object, have uncovered complex atmospheric changes.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres," according to the Hubble team. Credit: ...