Scientists find a surprising ingredient in exoplanet cake mix: sulfur dioxide

a blue haze partially covers the view of a large burning yellow and orange star. A smaller orb, a planet, passes in front of the star within the haze.

A ‘hot Neptune’ exoplanet It has been discovered that there is sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere – an atmosphere that also spews into space as the planet orbits its star in a steeply inclined orbit every three and a third days. The existence of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere of the exoplanet, named GJ 3470b … Read more