by Sarah Fecht
Humanity has gotten pretty good at tracking down planets in other solar systems. Between 2009 and 2013, the Kepler telescope discovered thousands of worlds orbiting distant suns. But finding out what those exoplanets are like has been more of a challenge. Luckily, we're getting better at it.
On Monday, scientists announced their observation of weather on a Jupiter-like exoplanet for the first time. The planet is a gas giant named HAT-P-7 b, and it orbits a star approximately 1,044 light-years away, and it turns out it might be covered in clouds of corundum––a mineral that makes up rubies and sapphires. . .
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