An international team of astronomers announced they conducted a detailed study of the extremely hot giant exoplanet WASP-76 b.

Key details:

• The planet orbits the massive star WASP-76, which is about 634 light-years away from our planet in the direction of the constellation Pisces.
• WASP-76 b orbits very close to its parent star, around 12 times closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
• The planet has a mass similar to that of Jupiter, but it is more than six times larger by volume.
• The planet is tidally-locked, meaning that one of its sides permanently faces the star that it orbits.
  • This means that one side is constantly superheated while another side is much colder.
  • This could mean that the wind carries the iron atoms from the dayside to the night side.
  • When the iron reaches the transition point between the two sides, the temperature decreases and the iron will condense into liquid drops that fall to the land.
• The researchers used the MAROON-X instrument of the Gemini-North Telescope to conduct a detailed study of the planet