NASA’s James Webb Telescope observes dust storm on a giant planet approximately twenty times the size of Jupiter

 NASA’s James Webb Telescope observes dust storm on a giant exoplanet approximately twenty times the size of Jupiter

 

        NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured an extraterrestrial storm rage on a planet orbiting two stars which is 40 light-years away.

This sandstorm was spotted on a gaseous world up to twenty times larger in size than the Jupiter. Using the James Webb Space Telescope's powerful detectors, scientists observed not only the sandy clouds but also Water, Methane, and Carbon dioxide in that planet's atmosphere. These observations of the occurrence were issued on March 22 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

An illustration of the 'super Jupiter' detected 40 light-years away by the James Webb Space Telescope. Like Jupiter, the planet has an enormous storm roiling in its atmosphere. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted)

That "super-Jupiter" planet is known as VHS 1256 b and orbits its two stars so far away that it takes ten thousand years to complete one orbit. The VHS 1256 b is about approximately four times farther from its stars than Pluto is from our Sun.

The exoplanet is so far from its host stars, the stars' light does not vague the planet and due to that reason scientists can detect it directly. For observing of exoplanets that orbit closer to their stars, scientists have to study the light that a host star shines through the exoplanet's atmosphere, rather than studying the planet first. 

The clouds are also incredibly hot: The temperature in that layer of the planet's atmosphere ascends to 830 degrees Celsius. According to the scientists, the dirt storm will not last endlessly. VHS 1256 b is a relatively new planet just 150 million years old which means it will transform as its eternities. Because it is so far from its host stars, VHS 1256 will cool down, and its tempestuous atmosphere may clear up, according to the scientists.