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Astronomers have peered into an alien planet's atmosphere and found extreme weather unlike anything in the solar system.
"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.
"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." ...
The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
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Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.
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