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James Webb Telescope Detects Salty Clouds on Famous 'Pink Planet'
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James Webb Telescope Detects Salty Clouds on Famous 'Pink Planet'

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered salty clouds in the atmosphere of the 'Pink Planet,' one of the coldest exoplanets ever imaged. This finding reveals exotic chemistry on the distant world.

Comments (5)

Marcus_T

Salty clouds on an exoplanet — JWST just keeps rewriting the textbook. What a time to be alive.

EllisV

Atmospheric chemistry from light-years away is genuinely wild. Webb is worth every single penny.

A. Mbeki

Imagine explaining this to someone 20 years ago — cloud composition on a world we cannot even resolve.

RebeccaL

Sodium chloride aerosols out there? Did not expect that at all. Incredible work.

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