'Hot Saturn' WASP-96b (IMAGE)

University of Exeter

'Hot Saturn' WASP-96b

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This is an artist rendition of 'hot Saturn' WASP-96b. A distant observer would see WASP-96b blueish in color, because sodium would absorb the yellow-orange light from the planet's full spectrum.

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