Inferno-like exoplanet has ionized calcium in its atmosphere
Physics World
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Signatures of ionized calcium in the upper atmosphere of an ultra-hot, Jupiter-like exoplanet have been found by international team of astronomers led by Emily Deibert at the University of Toronto. First discovered in 2016, WASP-76b has about the same mass as Jupiter and has a radius almost twice as large.
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