Astronomers Discovered an Immense Cloud of Hydrogen Escaping From an Exoplanet the Size of Neptune
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 12:30
in Astronomy & Space
This phenomenon generates like a tail or a head of hair giving it the appearance of a giant comet. Already observed in some very large and very hot exoplanets, this phenomenon is viewed for the first time with such a magnitude. The cloud might explain the formation of some hot and rocky super-Earths. It would also be an indicator for detecting extrasolar oceans. Finally, it would be used to envisage the future of our atmosphere. These results are published in the latest edition of the journal Nature.