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WASP-17b
December 13 , 2023
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- The evidence of quartz nanocrystals detected in the high-altitude clouds of the exoplanet WASP-17b using the James Webb Space Telescope.
- The detection is the first time that silica particles have been detected in the atmosphere of an exoplanets.
- WASP-17 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits an F-type star.
- Its mass is 0.78 Jupiter’s, it takes 3.7 days to complete one orbit of its star.
- This exoplanet is about 1,324 light-years away from our planet.
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