Astronomers get a sizzling weather report from a distant planet

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 13:42 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers have observed the intense heating of a distant planet as it swung close to its parent star, providing important clues to the atmospheric properties of the planet. The observations enabled astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to generate realistic images of the planet by feeding the data into computer simulations of the planet's atmosphere.

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