Pulling strings: New method maps exoplanet’s true shape

Researchers from Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences used a new JWST transit-mapping technique to reveal WASP-17b’s slightly egg-shaped atmosphere and confirm predicted temperature patterns. The breakthrough creates a detailed 3D exoplanet atmosphere map and advances future studies of alien weather and climate.
Read the story in the Cornell Chronicle.

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Illustration of a planet with a haze of atmosphere around it, bulging on the left side
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