Artistic illustration of exoplanet WASP-18 b (IMAGE)

University of Montreal

Artistic illustration of exoplanet WASP-18 b

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WASP-18 b, seen in an artistic illustration, is a gas giant exoplanet 10 times more massive than Jupiter that orbits its star in just 23 hours. Researchers used the NIRISS instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope to study the planet as it moved behind its star. Temperatures there reach 2,700 degrees Celsius.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Miller/IPAC

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