The James Webb telescope shows how starlight transforms a distant, Jupiter-like planet

This illustration shows how the gas giant planet WASP-39 b might look as it orbits its host star.

Scientists studying a gas giant planet have found that it’s partly cloudy and that its atmosphere gets altered by starlight from its host star.

(Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI))




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Source: NPR Space News