NASA covered the “Ring of Fire” annular solar eclipse on October 14, with broadcasts from Kerrville, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. This event also allowed NASA to launch sounding rockets to study the eclipse’s atmospheric effects. A total solar eclipse is coming on April 8, 2024, moving from Texas to Maine. Highlighting the “Ring of …
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Webb spots quartz crystals in clouds of exoplanet WASP-17b
This is a transmission spectrum of the hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-17 b captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s innovative Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on 12–13 March 2023. It reveals the first evidence for quartz (crystalline silica, SiO2) in the clouds of an exoplanet. This marks the first time that SiO2 has been identified in an exoplanet, …