Thu, Mar 12, 2020
"No signal arises from the nightside close to the morning terminator, showing that atomic iron is not absorbing starlight there. Iron must thus condense during its journey across the nightside," the scientists noted in the study, marking the first time chemical variations have been detected in a giant ultra-hot planet.
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Fri, May 06, 2016
"This is the first time that ALMA has probed the orbital motion of cold molecular gas well inside the gravitational sphere of influence of a supermassive black hole," said Aaron Barth, professor of physics and astronomy from the University of California-Irvine.
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