The gas giant exoplanet WASP-43 b has a powerful 5,000 mph blowing around its equator, due to its close orbit with its star.
Astronomers have mapped the weather on a planet hundreds of light years away, and found that it always has clear skies on the side facing its sun.This distant exoplanet, named WASP-43 b, is a hot gas giant orbiting a star around 280 light years away from our solar system, and dramatic weather patterns have been detected, including winds of up to 5,000 mph at its equator, according to a new paper in the journal Nature Astronomy.
has spied the weather patterns on this distant world, confirming that it has only water vapor and no clouds on its day side, high-up and thick clouds on its night side, and powerful winds around its equator mixing gases between the two sides.'
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