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NASA’s Hubble Maps the Temperature and Water Vapor on an Extreme Exoplanet

Temperature map of the "hot Jupiter" class exoplanet WASP 43bThis is a temperature map of the “hot Jupiter” class exoplanet WASP 43b. The white-colored region on the daytime side is 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit. The nighttime side temperatures drop to under 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.  Image Credit: NASA/ESA

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 10, 2014.  A team of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a turbulent planet outside our solar system, revealing its secrets of air temperatures…

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