Image: Artist’s illustration of temperature inversion in exoplanet’s atmosphere
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Description: NASA scientists detected a stratosphere on WASP-33b by measuring the drop in light as the planet passed behind its star (top). Temperatures in the low stratosphere rise (right) because of molecules absorbing radiation from the star; otherwise, temperatures would cool down at higher altitudes (left).
Title: Artist’s illustration of temperature inversion in exoplanet’s atmosphere
Credit: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1525a/
Author: NASA, ESA, and K. Haynes and A. Mandell (Goddard Space Flight Center)
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