What can the atmosphere of a free-floating exoplanet teach astronomers about exoplanet formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to ...

The JWST has found evidence of auroras and clouds in the atmosphere of the giant rogue planet SIMP-0136, but the causes must be very different from anything we see within the Solar System. When ...

Strong Northern Lights-like activity is the standout feature of today's weather report, which is coming at you from a strange, extrasolar world, instead of a standard TV studio. That is thanks to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s concept shows what the isolated planetary-mass object SIMP 0136 could look like based on recent observations from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SIMP-0136 is a strange celestial object somewhere between a planet and a star. Using the new space telescope, researchers have now ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered complex atmospheric changes on SIMP 0136, a free-floating planetary object not orbiting a star. Infrared observations revealed ...

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