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These Exoplanets Are Forever Half Dark and Covered in Clouds

Cloudy Hot Jupiters
"Hot Jupiters" exoplanets that resemble our own Jupiter, except for being, well, hot, have another side to them. We mean this literally: The planets usually don't rotate, so one side is always facing their star, and the other remains in permanent night. A new study is suggesting that these night sides probably all look the same, no matter where you go in the universe. They're dark and covered in opaque clouds.These new findings are a result of a new study based on
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