Fraught with Spots
If we don’t understand starspots, we won’t understand exoplanet atmospheres.
Hazy Experiments in Exoplanet Atmospheres
Multiple exoplanets appear to have a cloud or haze layer in their atmosphere, though the production rate of this haze remains unknown. Today, we discuss a new approach to answering this question: creating exoplanetary haze in the lab.
An Occam’s razor for very-hot hot Jupiters
Cues from stellar atmospheric chemistry can help in explaining the observations of very-hot gas giant atmospheres.
TRAPPIST-1: Atmospheric Recon
Researchers took observations using the Hubble Space Telescope to find out more about the atmospheric compositions of the Earth-sized exoplanets in the Habitable Zone of TRAPPIST 1.
Blowing the wrong way round? Westward winds on CoRoT-2b
The hottest point in hot Jupiter atmospheres should be directly below their star or blown slightly eastward by winds. What is happening on CoRoT-2b?
Looking beyond the James Webb Space Telescope
With the imminent launch of the James Webb Space Telescope next year, many scientists are asking what is next? Today’s bite, which focuses on a recent workshop on global coordination: future space-based Ultraviolet-Optical-Infrared Telescopes, hopefully represents the first steps towards the next big space telescope.