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Researchers Develop a Way to Check the Weather on a Exoplanet

universetoday.com · 3hShare

Scientists from Trinity have developed a powerful way to unravel the changing weather patterns on distant worlds. Using this approach, they discovered that the weather on a well-studied brown dwarf, “SIMP 0136”, previously linked with Northern Lights-like phenomena, is largely shaped by just two dominant processes: changes in temperature and the vertical structure of its clouds.

First report: A world 20 light-years away reveals surprisingly organized, Jupiter-like weather — phys.org, 1d