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Watching Dawn and Dusk on a Distant Hot Jupiter

An artist's impression of WASP-121b, an ultra-hot gas giant so close to its star that tidal forces stretch it into an egg shape. (Credit : NASA/ESA/G. Bacon)

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have caught an extreme, tidally locked exoplanet in the act of showing two very different faces at once, a fierce, wind battered hemisphere and a comparatively gentler half. The discovery not only reveals a planet with a genuine weather system violent enough to tear water apart, it hints at a missing ingredient in how scientists model alien atmospheres altogether.

Source: Universe Today

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