Three layers of giant gas atmosphere
That / m. Cornesser
The atmosphere of a remote world has been mapped in detail for the first time, revealing a strange and curious weather system The fastest wind ever seen around the planet’s stratosphere.
The astronomers have studied Wasp-121b since 2015. The planet, 900 years old, is a wide size of the gas, and its star is very tight, forming a full orbit, forming full orbit 30 hours of the earth. This narrow orbit heats the planet atmosphere 2500 ºC temperature Enough to boiling iron.
Now, Julia on the side At the southern European Observatory of Chile, they saw the hot atmosphere of Tylos, using a very large telescope of the observatory, and has at least three different gas layers that move in different directions around the planet. Unlike astronomers ever seen. “It is completely crazy, science fiction-y models and behaviors,” says Seidel.
It is a similar structure of atmospheres in our solar system, where a stream of powerful winds are encouraged by the differences in internal temperature, and the winds are generated by the heat of the sun at the top of the sun, which heats the light of the day of the planet, but not the other.
In the atmosphere of Tylos, they are still the winds of the lower layer that heats from the star of the planet. It seems to be away from the warm side, and the jet current seems to be mostly in the middle layer of the atmosphere, walking through the equator of Tylos in the direction of the planet. A top layer also shows Jetsstream-like features, but looking outward with hydrogen gas. This is difficult to explain using our current models, says Seidel. “What we see now is the opposite of what comes out of theory.”
What’s more, Tylos’s jet current is ever seen in the most powerful, over half of the planet flipping around 70,000 miles – almost double Previous disc holder. What drives this speed is not clear, but researchers believe that it can be due to the strong magnetic field of the planet or the ultraviolet radiation of the star. “This may change the flow patterns, but it is very speculative,” says Seidel.
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