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On distant exoplanets blow storms of iron and sodium

Tylos takes just 30 hours to orbit his star. It is extremely stormy on the planet, as researchers found out. And a wind of hydrogen blows out into spaceIn the atmosphere of a planet 900 light-years away, unusual weather conditions prevail. Observations by a research team with the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory Eso in Chile show three different layers in the gas shell of the planet WASP-121b, in which winds blow at spee…