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Exoplanet has its clouds mapped

NASA scientists using data from the Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a Jupiter-like world known as Kepler-7b (depicted left, with Jupiter to the right). The planet is marked by high clouds in the west and clear skies in the east. Previous analyses […]

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