An international group of researchers including University of Arizona astronomers, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has observed the atmosphere of a hot and uniquely inflated exoplanet. The exoplanet, which is the size of Jupiter but only a tenth of its mass, is found to have an east-west asymmetry in its atmosphere, meaning that there is a significant difference between the two edges of its atmosphere.
Astronomers catch a glimpse of a uniquely inflated and asymmetric exoplanet
