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Astronomers create a ‘weather map’ for a gas giant exoplanet

25 Feb 2025 Isabelle Dumé
Artist’s impression of supersonic winds on WASP-127b. The image shows a Jupiter-like gas giant planet with clouds that are blue-grey at the poles, reddish at medium latitudes, and white and windblown near the equator
Windy planet: Artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth. (Courtesy: ESO/L Calçada)
Astronomers have constructed the first “weather map” of the exoplanet WASP-127b, and the forecas

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