For the first time, scientists have been able to map the atmosphere of WASP-121b in 3D and what they found sounds like ...

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but on all planets. It feels like something out of science fiction," Julia Victoria Seidel, a researcher at the European Southern Observatory who led the new research, said in a statement. The ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists ...

but on all planets. It feels like something out of science fiction,” said Julia Victoria Seidel, a researcher at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and lead author of the study ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction." Many of the extraordinary features of WASP-121 b arise from the fact that it is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant planet with around 1.2 times the ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to map the atmosphere of WASP-121b - also known as Tylos - in 3D and what they found sounds like something out of science fiction. The planet is 900 ...