Saturday, 30 December 2017

Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen

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-editor by Tony Greicius

Exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system, and the researchers always use a Hubble to made the observations as the distant world traveled behind its star. Then NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found a blistering hot exoplanet where it snows sunscreen (titanium oxide) and the weird things of titanium oxide is precipitation only happens on the planet's permanent nighttime side. A powerful winds carry the titanium oxide gas around to the colder nighttime side. However, the astronomers didn't look for titanium oxide specifically by using Hubble. Instead, they observed that the giant planet's atmosphere is...click here to continue!

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