{"id":5160,"date":"2025-01-21T14:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T13:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2025-01-21T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T13:27:28","slug":"worlds-darkest-and-clearest-skies-at-risk-from-industrial-megaproject-eso-press-release-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/worlds-darkest-and-clearest-skies-at-risk-from-industrial-megaproject-eso-press-release-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme supersonic winds measured on planet outside our Solar System &#8211; ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33 000 km\/h, the winds make up the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured on a planet. The discovery was made using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) in Chile and provides unique insights into the weather patterns of a distant world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/unitedkingdom\/news\/eso2502\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to read the news on ESO<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/eso2502-ENG.jpg\" alt=\"Artist\u2019s impression of supersonic winds on WASP-127b\" class=\"wp-image-5166\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This artist\u2019s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet\u2019s equator. With a speed of 9 km per second (33 000 km\/h), this is the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured in the Universe. By tracking the speed of molecules in the atmosphere with the CRIRES+ instrument on ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope, researchers found that one side of the planet\u2019s atmosphere is moving towards us and the other away from us. This indicates that there is a powerful wind current going around the planet &#8211; <strong>Crediti:<\/strong>ESO\/L. Cal\u00e7ada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33 000 km\/h, the winds make up the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured on a planet. The discovery was made using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) in Chile and provides unique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[428,390,365,443],"class_list":["post-5160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-anna-wolter-2","tag-eso-2","tag-vlt","tag-wasp-172b"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/eso2502.jpg",1280,768,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/eso2502.jpg",150,90,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/eso2502.jpg",300,180,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/eso2502.jpg",768,461,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/eso2502.jpg",1024,614,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/eso2502.jpg",1280,768,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/eso2502.jpg",1280,768,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33 000 km\/h, the winds make up the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured on a planet. The discovery was made using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) in Chile and provides unique insights into the weather patterns of a distant world. Click here to read the news on ESO. This artist\u2019s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet\u2019s equator.&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}