Earth’s surface teems with quartz. But on a giant world 1,300 light-years away, quartz zips through the planet’s clouds.
Scientists pointed the James Webb Space Telescope — the most powerful observatory in space — at planet WASP-17 b, a gas giant world with temperatures of some 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1,500 degrees Celsius. For the first time, the researchers found evidence of tiny particles made of pure quartz in the atmosphere.
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