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Mapping clouds on brown dwarfs with the Hubble Space Telescope

Mapping clouds on brown dwarfs with the Hubble Space Telescope

An outline of the paper: HST Spectral Mapping of L/T Transition Brown Dwarfs Reveals Cloud Thickness Variations. by Apai et al. 2M2139 and SIMP0136 are two…

Atmosphere structure of a brown dwarf from HST and Spitzer observations

Atmosphere structure of a brown dwarf from HST and Spitzer observations

An outline of the paper: Vertical atmospheric structure in a variable brown dwarf: pressure-dependent phase shifts in simultaneous HST-Spitzer light curves, by Buenzli et al. It is…

Transit spectra with the Hubble Space Telescope: the dream

Transit spectra with the Hubble Space Telescope: the dream

So, after the transit of Venus, back to other planetary transits far, far away. Tomorrow, the Hubble Space Telescope will turn to WASP-17, to measure…

Transit of Venus: The Space Telescope stares at the Moon

Transit of Venus: The Space Telescope stares at the Moon

During the transit of Venus next Tuesday, the Hubble Space Telescope will be looking at … the Tycho crater on the Moon. It will be…

The hot Jupiter HD 189733 b

The hot Jupiter HD 189733 b

The transiting hot Jupiter HD 189733 b is one of the most favourable targets we have for measuring the structure and composition of an exoplanet’s…

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