(CNN) — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have for the first time detected tiny quartz crystals containing silica - a common mineral on Earth - within the atmosphere of a blazing hot ...
Thousand-mile-per-hour winds are blowing a hail of tiny quartz crystals through the silicate-enhanced, scorching hot atmosphere of a distant gas giant planet called WASP-17b, the James Webb Space ...
In context: WASP-17 b is a "hot Jupiter" type exoplanet that orbits a host star located 1,300 light years away from Earth. This gas giant is one of the three targets in the JWST-powered "Deep ...
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