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Darkest known exoplanet, a Jupiter-sized gas giant, discovered

This Jupiter-sized world reflects less than one percent of the light that falls on it, making it blacker than any planet or moon in our solar system.

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Stunning 'lucky' image of Jupiter turns the gas giant into a 'jack-o-lantern'

It is a mosaic formed from three years' worth of 'lucky images' taken by the Gemini telescope in Hawaii and is one of the clearest photos of Jupiter ever taken from Earth.




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Ultraviolet photochemistry of ethane: implications for the atmospheric chemistry of the gas giants

Chem. Sci., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC01746A, Edge Article
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Yao Chang, Jiayue Yang, Zhichao Chen, Zhiguo Zhang, Yong Yu, Qingming Li, Zhigang He, Weiqing Zhang, Guorong Wu, Rebecca A. Ingle, Matthew Bain, Michael N. R. Ashfold, Kaijun Yuan, Xueming Yang, Christopher S. Hansen
The vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation dynamics of ethane provide clues for modelling the atmospheric chemistry of the gas giants.
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