James Webb discovered water in the atmosphere of the hot giant planet WASP-18 b close to us, which is 10 times more massive than Jupiter

The James Webb Space Telescope continues to study the Universe. Recently, scientists used it to discover water in

in the form of steam on a giant planet that is relatively close to us.

What is known

The study once again confirmedexcellent resolution of the instruments installed on board the space laboratory. The exoplanet where water was found is called WASP-18 b. It is located 400 light years from us. It was discovered in 2008 using several telescopes, including Hubble.

WASP-18 b is located very close to its starand makes a revolution around it in 24 hours. The distance between the planet and the star is only 3.1 million km. By comparison, Mercury is 63 million km and Earth is 150 million km from the Sun.

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scientists from the National Aeronautics Administration andSpace Research (NASA) argue that due to the high temperature (2700 degrees Celsius), water molecules are split. However, a small amount of water is still retained.

It is also worth noting that WASP-18 b is constantlyfacing the star on one side. Because of this, the temperature on the reverse side is lower by 1100 degrees Celsius. Now scientists will study the reasons for the sharp drop, because. there must be a factor preventing the uniform distribution of heat.