DublinA world 20 light-years away has orderly weather.
The finding reframes what “weather” means on a world with no surface or ocean.
Trinity College Dublin researchers split brightness changes from SIMP 0136 into temperature shifts and cloud structure alone.
The method could next be turned on exoplanet atmospheres too distant to ever image directly.
How each outlet framed it
- Phys.org
- applies principal component analysis to detect brown dwarf atmospheric weather directly from JWST data without model assumptions
Sources: Phys.org