THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) IS CREATED AND (OR) DISTRIBUTED BY A FOREIGN MASS MEDIA PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT AND (OR) A RUSSIAN LEGAL ENTITY PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT.
Scientists explored the “night side” of exoplanet WASP-121b and found ruby clouds there. This is reported by the journal Nature.
The study of WASP-121b was carried out using the Hubble Space Telescope. To get a glimpse of the “night side”, the scientists compared the results of observations at each phase of the orbit with computer models.
It turned out that low temperatures on the “night side” lead to the condensation of minerals and the formation of clouds of iron and corundum – a mineral that is part of sapphires and rubies. On the side facing the star, these clouds become gases, and on the way from one side to the other, the scientists concluded, “rain” from liquid “rubies” may occur.
Scientists discovered WASP-121b in 2015, later it was classified as an exoplanet with a mass of the order of the mass of Jupiter.
It was previously reported that the presence of the stratosphere and temperature inversion at the WASP-121b object makes it similar to Earth. An inversion implies an increase in temperature with altitude. So, the earth’s stratosphere absorbs ultraviolet from the sun with the help of ozone, which causes it to warm up. In the lower layer, the troposphere, the temperature drops.
British scientists have found titanium and vanadium oxides in the atmosphere of WASP-121b, as well as molecules and nanoparticles that absorb ultraviolet light more strongly than ozone. Thus, the temperature there is 2700 degrees Kelvin. But how such a “hellish” world was formed is still unknown to science.
Source: Rosbalt
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