NASA finds clouds made of sand in 'fluffy' exoplanet's atmosphere

Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected clouds made up of silicate, or sand, in the atmosphere of a nearby exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system. WASP-107b—which lies 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Virgo—is a unique gaseous world that…

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