"Webb Telescope Discovers Exoplanet with Intense Dust Storms and Potential for Life"
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected silicate cloud features in the atmosphere of a distant planet known as VHS 1256 b. The planet's atmosphere is constantly rising, mixing, and moving during its 22-hour day, resulting in dramatic brightness changes. The exoplanet's turbulent skies are due to its low gravity and young age. The telescope also identified the largest number of molecules all at once on a planet outside our solar system, including water, methane, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide. The findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
