BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

HR 8799 e

EXOPLANET · innermost of the four giants
HR 8799 e
AI illustration of the real object
ORBIT like Saturn's, around a brighter starSTUDIED BY interferometry

The innermost of the photographed giants, so close to its bright young star that imaging it pushed technology to its limits. Combined telescopes in Chile measured its light with exquisite precision and found a stormy young atmosphere with clouds of silicate dust: rock vapor weather on a newborn giant.

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