Hubble's Tale of Two Exoplanets: Nature vs. Nurture
Monday, June 5, 2017 - 15:42
in Astronomy & Space
Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study two "hot Jupiter" exoplanets--having virtually the same size and temperature, and orbiting around nearly identical stars at the same distance--hypothesized that the planets' atmospheres should be alike. But the researchers found that one planet's atmosphere was much cloudier than the other.