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Webb Spots Icy Clouds on Distant Jupiter-Like Exoplanet


Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected water-ice clouds swirling through the atmosphere of Epsilon Indi Ab, a cold super-Jupiter that challenges existing models of giant planet atmospheres.

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