Planet WASP-121b: Iron Clouds, Titanium Rain, and Winds that Dwarf Earth’s Jetstream - The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel

Maxwell MoeMaxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona. Max can be found two nights a week probing the mysteries of the Universe at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Max received his Ph.D in astronomy from Harvard University in …

Astronomers have just completed the first successful measurement of the spectrum of the night side of an exoplanet in the WASP-121 system located 850 light years from Earth. The host star is a magnit… [+4259 chars]

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