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  1. "That finding implies a dynamic, ever-changing sky where cloud decks ***form and dissolve across the globe in just hours***. The study’s models indicate that deeper layers contain iron clouds under forsterite ones, with temperatures ranging from 1,000 to 1,300 Kelvin. These layers shimmer and shift, generating light curves that pulse in rhythm with the planet’s rotation"

    zmescience.com/science/news-sc

    #exoplanets #weather #rogueplanets #space #JamesWebbTelescope #awesome

  2. #JWST wouldn't be able to detect 🔭 faraway planets as small as #Earth or as close to their parent #stars, because of the glare ☀️ bbc.com/news/science-environme

    #JamesWebbTelescope #SETI

  3. Astronomers using the #JamesWebbTelescope #JWST have found water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane on planet K2-18b

    2.6x Earth radius, in the habitable zone (liquid water possible), 124 ly away

    The cool part:

    They also found DMS. Dimethyl Sulfide (probably, the signal is weak, they need to confirm)

    you know DMS as "the smell of the sea"

    We don't know of any geochemical processes that make DMS

    The only process we know of that makes DMS, is life

    👀

    newscientist.com/article/24770

    #Astronomy