Astronomers detect ferocious jet-stream winds on alien planet
The HinduIn the earth’s upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 442 km per hour, but they are not the strongest in our solar system. Astronomers have detected winds howling at about 33,000 km per hour on this large gaseous planet, located in our Milky Way galaxy approximately 520 lightyears from the earth in a tight orbit around a star similar to our sun. Instead, below the observed atmosphere lies gas that becomes denser and more pressurized the deeper one goes into the planet,” said astrophysicist and study co-author David Cont of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany. Higher atmospheric wind speeds have been detected on two other exoplanets, in winds from their day side to night side, but not in winds flowing around the entire planet.
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