The James Webb Space telescope has given us some pretty unbelievable photos, showing us the faces of incredible objects in deep space. However, astronomers say that for the first time it’s now giving us an idea of what’s inside a distant and bizarres planet.
00:00The James Webb Space Telescope has given us some pretty unbelievable photos, showing us the faces of incredible objects in deep space.
00:11However, astronomers say that for the first time, it's now giving us an idea of what's inside a distant and bizarre planet.
00:18The exoplanet in question is called WASP-107b, a planet recently described as having the density of cotton candy.
00:25It was believed that physicists might have to go back to the drawing board with regards to their planetary formation models, as they theorized the planet had an extremely tiny core surrounded by hydrogen and helium.
00:35This was an affront to planetary formation models.
00:38However, the detection of very low levels of methane via the James Webb Telescope means the planet is much hotter than we thought.
00:44With the researchers writing about it, the web data tells us that planets like WASP-107b didn't have to form in some odd way, with a super small core and a huge gassy envelope.
00:54Instead, we can take something more like Neptune, with a lot of rock and not as much gas, just dial up the temperature and poof it up to look the way WASP-107b does.
01:02That's because methane is not stable at high temperatures.
01:05However, they still detected other carbon-bearing molecules.
01:08This suggests that not only is WASP-107b's interior much hotter than they thought, but it's also much larger, with the researchers saying it's around 12 times the mass of Earth's core.
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