NASA's Webb Telescope Paints Detailed Picture of a Nearby 'Hot Saturn' Exoplanet
“Data like these are a game changer.” Earlier researchbased on Webb observations already revealed the first clear detection of carbon dioxide at an exoplanet on WASP-39b. So how is SO2 formed? But what does it mean? The weather on WASP-39b, by contrast, occasionally calls for just patchy clouds. “It is incredibly exciting to know that everything is going to be rewritten. That is one of the best parts of being a scientist....