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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...