Inferno World with Titanium Skies
It's getting hot in here!
Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope found titanium oxide in an exoplanetary atmosphere...
...which may be making exoplanet WASP-19b 2000 degrees hot on its surface!
In large enough quantities, titanium oxide can prevent heat from entering or escaping an atmosphere.
Finding the molecule gives us hints to the temperature and pressure structure of this exoplanet, WASP-19b.
Research of exoplanetary atmospheres lets us understand exoplanet diversity
and improve our models for future studies. #hotstuff
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