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VHS 1256 b - AI Art Illustration.
This is an artistic illustration via AI, created especially for the article on our Facebook page. In reality the planet would be darker than a brown dwarf, here it is illuminated to show its tormented clouds. I also hypothesised the presence of several moons around this planet.
The idea was to depict the exoplanet VHS 1256 b, an enormous planet of about 11.8 Jovian masses 40 light years from us in the constellation Corvus. Too small to be a brown dwarf (you would need at least 75-80 Jovian masses), but big enough to possess Clouds with a temperature of about 830°C!
Considering that it gravitates around two stars (a binary system) and that it has a very wide orbit that takes it one revolution around the two stars in 10000 years, the temperatures of its Clouds are incredible!
The researchers deduced all this through the James Webb Space Telescope by identifying the characteristics of the silicate Clouds that are present in the atmosphere of this planet.
The atmosphere continually rises, mixes and shifts during its 22-hour day, bringing the warmer material up and pushing the cooler material down. The resulting changes in brightness are incredible. It is the most variable celestial body known to date.
The team, led by Brittany Miles of the University of Arizona, also found remarkably clear evidence of water, methane and carbon monoxide. This is the largest number of molecules ever detected all together on a planet outside our Solar System.
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VHS 1256 b - AI Art Illustration.
This is an artistic illustration via AI, created especially for the article on our Facebook page. In reality the planet would be darker than a brown dwarf, here it is illuminated to show its tormented clouds. I also hypothesised the presence of several moons around this planet.
The idea was to depict the exoplanet VHS 1256 b, an enormous planet of about 11.8 Jovian masses 40 light years from us in the constellation Corvus. Too small to be a brown dwarf (you would need at least 75-80 Jovian masses), but big enough to possess Clouds with a temperature of about 830°C!
Considering that it gravitates around two stars (a binary system) and that it has a very wide orbit that takes it one revolution around the two stars in 10000 years, the temperatures of its Clouds are incredible!
The researchers deduced all this through the James Webb Space Telescope by identifying the characteristics of the silicate Clouds that are present in the atmosphere of this planet.
The atmosphere continually rises, mixes and shifts during its 22-hour day, bringing the warmer material up and pushing the cooler material down. The resulting changes in brightness are incredible. It is the most variable celestial body known to date.
The team, led by Brittany Miles of the University of Arizona, also found remarkably clear evidence of water, methane and carbon monoxide. This is the largest number of molecules ever detected all together on a planet outside our Solar System.
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Our Facebook page: bit.ly/PipploFB
Our YouTube channel: bit.ly/PipploYT