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A faraway planet known for its dire weather also whiffs of rotten eggs, according to a new study.

Scientists studied the atmosphere of HD 189733 b, which has scorching temperatures and precipitation akin to raining glass, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Hydrogen sulphide, which also exists on Jupiter, makes up most of HD 189733 b's atmosphere, and emits a bit of a pong, according to researchers. The gas is also emitted during farts.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey stop spying on my planet! I need some privacy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What are you eating up there?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Baked beans, onion pie, coleslaw, broccoli, onion soup, raclette and cheese fondue

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Washed down pints of cheap pop, if I'm not mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

this is my drink of choice: Sauerkraut juice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well that'd definitely work.

If I could be bold enough to suggest an addition to your diet - try Jerusalem artichokes:

which way soever they be dressed and eaten, they stir and cause a filthy loathsome stinking wind within the body, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented, and are a meat more fit for swine than men.

I ate them once and the results were remarkable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Wonderful 🫨💨

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would like to know more about this onion pie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Awesome! I love onions and can't wait to try this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

as a fellow onion lover i also recommend watching this video 20 to 50 times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt1u6N7lueM

😋

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like the Beeb bottled it on the headline. Especially given the previous news about this planet: 5400mph winds discovered hurtling around planet outside solar system

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like they're hiding something there and they really don't want us to go...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

But we all want to visit the Planet of the Farts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Venus too, probably. Planet is covered in sulfur.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A faraway planet known for its dire weather also whiffs of rotten eggs, according to a new study.Scientists studied the atmosphere of HD 189733 b, which has scorching temperatures and precipitation akin to raining glass, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope.Hydrogen sulphide, which also exists on Jupiter, makes up most of HD 189733 b's atmosphere, and emits a bit of a pong, according to researchers.

The gas is also emitted during farts.Finding it here is one of the first detections of hydrogen sulphide on an exoplanet - or planet outside of our solar system.

"So, if your nose could work at 1000C ... the atmosphere would smell like rotten eggs," said Dr Guangwei Fu, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins who led the research.The study was published in the journal Nature., externalAlthough hydrogen sulphide is one of the gasses that indicate that distant planets might be home to alien organisms, researchers aren't searching for life on this planet because it's a gas giant, like Jupiter, and too hot.However, they say finding hydrogen sulphide here is a step toward understanding how planets form.

James Webb is opening up a new vista in analysing the chemicals in faraway planets and so helping astronomers learn more about their origins.

It's really revolutionising the field of astronomy.

It has delivered the capability promised and it even exceeded our expectations in certain ways," said Dr Fu.The researcher plans to use information from the space telescope to study more planets.


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