NASA's Webb catches exoplanet getting roasted
Webb found HD 80606 b heats up by about 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit as its elongated orbit swings it close to its star.
- Researchers released new findings at the 248th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Pasadena, California, on an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter experiencing rapid heating near its Sun-like star.
- Tiffany Kataria, principal investigator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, described the world as one of the most extreme "Hot Jupiters," noting its highly eccentric orbit creates a "completely different beast."
- Webb data reveals the temperature skyrockets by 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit as the planet gets "roasted" by extreme heat, exceeding expectations based on Spitzer Space Telescope data.
- Ryan Challener, a research associate at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, said the telescope enables scientists to distinguish specific chemical signatures like methane and carbon dioxide.
- Scientists are only beginning to analyze the detailed spectroscopic data captured by Webb, offering significant opportunities to learn more about this "roasted exoplanet.
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Astronomers find 'roasted planet' that heats up by 610°C when approaching star
Concept art shows exoplanet HD 80606 b being ‘roasted’ as its orbit approaches the closest point to its host star (Picture: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)/Cover Media) Astronomers have discovered ‘one of the most extreme exoplanets’ ever found in our universe which orbits a star very like our own sun. Using Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope, they’ve observed a giant planet that gets so roasted by its parent star that it changes its chemi…
NASA's Webb catches exoplanet getting roasted
One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That's the latest from researchers analyzing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical orbit that sweeps close by its sun-like star. The research team is presenting its study and preliminary findings Tuesday at the 248th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS248) in Pasadena, California.
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Scientists show how a planet gets roasted by extreme heat
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured HD 80606, four times the mass of Jupiter, sweeping close by its Sun-like star.
An exoplanet (planet outside of the Solar System) with four times the mass of Jupiter was located by the Space Telescope James Webb of Nasa, orbiting very close to a star similar to the Sun. Named as HD 80606 b, the planet reaches 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit (about 593 °C) as it approaches its star. The exoplanet was nicknamed as a roast exoplanet. According to the research team that presented preliminary studies on the discovery last Tuesday (16),…
The space observatory recorded an extreme thermal increase in the gas giant HD 80606 b due to its elliptical orbit, surpassing all previous scientific forecasts. Read more
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