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New Alien World: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Discovers a New Alien World Covered in Clouds of

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by Ron Ss
Posted: Sep 11, 2022
New Alien World: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Discovers a New Alien World Covered in Clouds of Sand

James Webb Telescope: The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a fascinating alien world. It is an alien world, covered with grains and depicting sand. The NIRSPC and MIRI sensors on the James Webb Space Telescope discovered this alien world. According to a recent report, such an exoplanet has been discovered for the first time. Scientists have found signs of a silicate cloud surrounding a brown dwarf that is about 20 times larger than Jupiter.

VHS 1256b known as a brown dwarf in the constellation Corvus, which lies 72 light-years from Earth and orbits two small red dwarf stars, is well worth a look.

This peculiar exoplanet was first discovered in 2016 and its red color stunned astronomers. They thought that some sort of environment might be responsible for the bright red color. As Space.com reports, data from the James Webb Space Telescope now support those hypotheses, showing that VHS 1256b must have been enveloped in a dense cloud made of silicate grains such as sand.

The odd exoplanet was found in 2016 and has baffled astronomers ever since because of its reddish hue. They thought that some kind of atmosphere might be responsible for the shine. According to space.com, data from James Webb Space Telescope have now supported those hypotheses, showing that VHS 1256 b must be covered in dense clouds made up of silicate grains that resemble sand.

Water, methane, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sodium, and potassium were also found by Webb in the atmosphere of VHS 1256 b.

The project's principal researcher, Brittany Miles, an astronomer at the University of California, Irvine, said to Space.com, "We will know more through iterations on the data reduction."

The Webb measurements were so precise that they demonstrated how the ratio of the different gases varies throughout the atmosphere of VHS 1256 b, indicating that the atmosphere is not still but rather chaotic and unstable. Scientists discovered indications of silicate-rich clouds surrounding a brown dwarf that was almost 20 times larger of Jupiter in the data. James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a fascinating alien world blanketed in swarms of silicate grains that reflect sand. More

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