Webb Telescope captures auroras on a rogue planet as it zips through the galaxy
https://www.earth.com/news/webb-telescope-captures-weather-report-from-starless-rogue-planet-simp-0136/
Webb Telescope captures auroras on a rogue planet as it zips through the galaxy
https://www.earth.com/news/webb-telescope-captures-weather-report-from-starless-rogue-planet-simp-0136/
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Is that a artist render or the actual photo captured by Webb?
Blows my mind, a few years ago we could only infer the existence and relative sizes of only the largest planets orbiting close to their stars, by measuring the dimming from transit.
Now we can figure out the atmospheric composition, and weather, on a planet not even orbiting a star.