Astronomy Research

NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roasted

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June 17, 2026 50 views
Original source: NASA

One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical orbit that sweeps close by its Sun-like star. The research team is presentin...