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James Webb Space Telescope predicts clouds of molten rock on this ultra-hot exoplanet

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) produced a weather report for a distant planet. The powerful space telescope predicts extreme wind speeds, extremely hot temperatures and shrouds of rock clouds for the world called Wasp-43b. So the term extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,” shows just how weird alien planets outside the solar system can be. WASP-43b… Read More »