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The atmosphere of a distant world has been mapped in detail for the first time, revealing a strange, topsy-turvy weather system, with the fastest winds ever seen inexplicably blowing around the planet's stratosphere.
Now, Julia Seidel at the European Southern Observatory in Chile and her colleagues have looked inside Tylos's scorchingly hot atmosphere using the observatory's Very Large Telescope, and they found it has at least three distinct layers of gas moving in different directions around the planet – a structure unlike anything astronomers have ever seen. "It's absolutely crazy, science fiction-y patterns and behaviours," says Seidel.
The planetary atmospheres in our solar system share a broadly similar structure to one another, where a jet stream of powerful winds blowing in the lower portion of the atmosphere is driven by internal temperature differences, while winds in the upper layers are more affected by temperature differences created by the sun's heat, which warms the daylight side of the planet but not the other.
What's more, the jet stream on Tylos is the most powerful ever seen, blasting at around 70,000 kilometres per hour across half the planet – double the speed of the previous record holder . Exactly what is driving this speed is unclear, but the researchers think that it may be due to the planet's strong magnetic field or because of ultraviolet radiation from its star. "This could possibly change the flow patterns, but this is all highly speculative," says Seidel.
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