Artist’s rendering of the warm exoplanet WASP-80 b (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Artist’s rendering of the warm exoplanet WASP-80 b

Caption

An artist’s rendering of the warm exoplanet WASP-80 b whose color may appear bluish to human eyes due to the lack of high-altitude clouds and the presence of atmospheric methane identified by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, similar to the planets Uranus and Neptune in our own solar system. Image  .

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NASA

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