Tag Archive for 'Titanium oxide'

An artist’s impression of an ultrahot Jupiter. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Astronomers Detect Titanium Oxide and Several Metals in Atmosphere of WASP-189b

Jan 28, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The temperature of a planet’s atmosphere decreases with increasing altitude, unless a shortwave absorber that causes a temperature inversion exists....

An artist’s impression showing WASP-19b, in which atmosphere astronomers detected titanium oxide for the first time. WASP-19b’s atmosphere is estimated to have a temperature of about 2,000 degrees Celsius. Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO.

Hot-Jupiter WASP-19b Has ‘Titanium’ Skies

Sep 14, 2017 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected titanium oxide in the atmosphere of the hot-Jupiter exoplanet WASP-19b. An artist’s...

This is an artist’s concept of a hot Jupiter exoplanet. Image credit: NASA / ESA / G. Bacon, STScI.

Astronomers Discover Stratosphere on Hot Jupiter WASP-33b

Jun 11, 2015 by News Staff

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have detected a stratosphere – an atmospheric region that is very important to life –...