An artist’s concept of WASP-107 b shows turbulent atmospheric mixing within the planet’s gas envelope. Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa/Johns Hopkins University
Artist’s concept of WASP-107 b, a warm Neptune exoplanet about 200 light years away. Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa/Johns Hopkins University
Planetary Composition and Potential for Habitability
A giant planet wrapped by a scorching atmosphere as fluffy as cotton, WASP-107 b orbits a star about 200 light-years away. It is puffy because of its build: a DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07395-z
“A high internal heat flux and large core in a warm neptune exoplanet” by Luis Welbanks, Taylor J. Bell, Thomas G. Beatty, Michael R. Line, Kazumasa Ohno, Jonathan J. Fortney, Everett Schlawin, Thomas P. Greene, Emily Rauscher, Peter McGill, Matthew Murphy, Vivien Parmentier, Yao Tang, Isaac Edelman, Sagnick Mukherjee, Lindsey S. Wiser, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Achrène Dyrek and Kenneth E. Arnold, 20 May 2024, Nature.
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07514-w
Other study authors are Daniel P. Thorngren and Elena Manjavacas of Johns Hopkins University; Joanna K. Barstow of the Open University; Pascal Tremblin of Université Paris-Saclay; Catarina Alves de Oliveira, Stephan M. Birkmann, and Pierre Ferruit of the