This Hot Jupiter is Leaving a Swirling Tail of Helium in its Wake - by ET_Exists
, which uses light to analyze a planetary atmosphere’s elemental composition. In this case, the helium gas escaping from HAT-P-32 b’s atmosphere.
“We would not have seen this without the long-timeframe observations that we can get with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope,” said Dr. Caroline Morley, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin, principal investigator for the HET Exospheres Project, and a co-author on the study. “It allowed us to observe this planet for its full orbit.”
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