ESA/Hubble heic1422: Hubble reveals most detailed exoplanet weather map ever. A team of scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made the most detailed map ever of the temperature of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, and traced the amount of water it contains. The planet targeted for both of the investigations ...

ESA/Hubble News
9 October 2014

A team of scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made the most detailed map ever of the temperature of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, and traced the amount of water it contains. The planet targeted for both of the investigations was the hot-Jupiter exoplanet WASP-43b.

The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1422/

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9 October 2014




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