Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Cloudy Weather On Alien Super-Earth Revealed By Hubble Space Telescope

Weather forecasters on exoplanet GJ 1214b would have an easy job. Today's forecast: cloudy. Tomorrow: overcast. Extended outlook: more clouds.A team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago report they have definitively characterized the atmosphere of a super-Earth class planet orbiting another star for the first time.This image shows an artist's view of exoplanet GJ 1214b.Credit: NASA, ESA, & G.



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