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New Light on Complex Nature of ‘Hot Jupiter’ Atmospheres

A team of international researchers used state-of-the-art modelling techniques to extensively study the atmosphere of a ‘hot Jupiter’ found 150 lightyears from Earth. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-09-complex-nature-hot-jupiter-atmospheres.html#jCp

A team of international researchers used state-of-the-art modelling techniques to extensively study the atmosphere of a ‘hot Jupiter’ found 150 lightyears from Earth.

 
A team of international researchers from University of Exeter, Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, used state-of -the-art modelling techniques to extensively study the atmosphere of a ‘hot Jupiter’ found 150 lightyears from Earth. They adapted computer model used by the Met Office to study the Earth’s atmosphere to perform #simulations of these exotic distant worlds that are the size of Jupiter, but orbiting more closely to their parent star than Mercury does to the Sun.
 
The results were compared to observations carried out using the powerful #Spitzer Space Telescope, probing...
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