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A pair of new studies has revealed that the hellish skies of exoplanet WASP-121b contain silicon monoxide gas, which has never been found in any planetary atmosphere to date.

"Studying the chemistry of ultra hot planets like WASP-121b helps us to understand how gas giant atmospheres work under extreme temperature conditions." ...

WASP-121b is infamous for its blistering dayside with temperatures of 3000°C. The nightside, on the other hand, broils at a lower temperature of 1500°C.

For the study, the researchers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to observe WASP-121b, which is located approximately 880 light-years from Earth and experiences temperatures greater than 3,000 ...

The planet Wasp-121b is one of the strangest exoplanets discovered to date. It is a hot gas planet, a hot Jupiter, on which there are clouds of metal from which it rains liquid gemstones.

WASP-121b is an ultra-hot giant planet that orbits its host star at a distance of only about twice the star's diameter, completing one orbit in approximately 30.5 hours.

To the point. Tracing the origin of an ultra-hot exoplanet: The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice ...