‘Thermometer’ molecule confirmed on exoplanet WASP-31b

8/28/2023 By | Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

Researchers have discovered a molecule that could determine the temperature and other characteristics in exoplanets.
Read the story in the Cornell Chronicle.

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