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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 22 2017, @08:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the What-Would-Gimli-Say? dept.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-221&rn=news.xml&rst=6925

[Researchers] have a new model for explaining how clouds move and change shape in brown dwarfs, using insights from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Giant waves cause large-scale movement of particles in brown dwarfs' atmospheres, changing the thickness of the silicate clouds, researchers report in the journal Science. The study also suggests these clouds are organized in bands confined to different latitudes, traveling with different speeds in different bands.

"This is the first time we have seen atmospheric bands and waves in brown dwarfs," said lead author Daniel Apai, associate professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

[...] "The atmospheric winds of brown dwarfs seem to be more like Jupiter's familiar regular pattern of belts and zones than the chaotic atmospheric boiling seen on the Sun and many other stars," said study co-author Mark Marley at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley.

Zones, spots, and planetary-scale waves beating in brown dwarf atmospheres (DOI: 10.1126/science.aam9848) (DX)


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 22 2017, @02:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 22 2017, @02:25PM (#557517)

    What if I told you, what you claim is utter bullshit?

    Where's your actual calculation, based on an actual model rather than fuzzy prose, that agrees with the observation and doesn't contradict any of the millions of experiments done down on earth (and in near-earth space)? Note that not a single experiment done on earth contradicts in any way the established theories of physics on which those models are built. That experimental data is much better evidence than a liberal interpretation of ancient myths.