Scientists Scan Mysterious Planet as It Drifts Through Space

The asymmetry of each cloud level condition is considered to be the cause of the brightness of Simp 0136 as it rotates. If you think of Jupiter, it is easy to understand, which is probably the same as the gas giant planet, which is probably the same structure and chemical composition.

Or for any other way to illustrate it, try to imagine the surface of the earth, Philip Murhead of the University of Boston said, one’s assistant New paper Simp creates the outline of these searchs about 0136. “When the earth revolves around the sea, you will observe strong blue colors and when you observe the strong brown or green colors, it means continent, forest zone, and cities,” he explains.

An image of observed in Jupiter is an image of Aurora, which may have a similar composition of 0136 Simp.

Photograph: NASA/ESA/J. Nichols (Lysteri University); Recognition: A. Simon (NASA/GSFC)/Opal team

Also, the infrared light shown by the blue lines in the image above comes from a high level of the atmosphere of Simp 0136, it is far above its cloud layers.

It is thought that due to this difference in infrared radiation, the brightness of Simp 0136, it changes as it rotates as the temperature like the clouds of the cloud changes in place on the planet. Also, researchers noticed hot spots where the infrared light on the planet was especially bright. They believe that they can be caused by Auroras, whose existence has already been confirmed by radio wave observation.

However, it is difficult to explain all the changes in infrared brightness by simply cloud and temperature variations. For this reason, the research team has noted that the atmosphere of Simp 0136 may contain territories where carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide are concentrated and these regions can affect infrared brightness as the planet rotates.

This story was originally attended Wired Japan And has been translated from Japanese.