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Fiery 5,000 MPH Winds: Webb Maps Weather on Extreme Exoplanet WASP-43 b


WASP-43 b is cloudy on the nightside and clear on the dayside, with equatorial winds howling around the planet at 5,000 miles per hour. Sometimes not finding something is just as exciting and useful as finding it. Take hot Jupiter WASP-43 b, for example. This tidally locked world has a searing-hot,

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