Rare-Earth metals in the atmosphere of a glowing-hot exoplanet
Channel: Universität Bern
Date: 2019-05-09

KELT-9 b is the hottest exoplanet known to date. In the summer of 2018, a joint team of astronomers from the universities of Bern and Geneva found signatures of gaseous iron and titanium in its atmosphere. Now these researchers have also been able to detect traces of vaporized sodium, magnesium, chromium, and the rare-Earth metals scandium and yttrium. Media Release: https://www.unibe.ch/news/media_news/media_relations_e/media_releases/2019/medienmitteilungen_2019/rare_earth_metals_in_the_atmosphere_of_a_glowing_hot_exoplanet/index_eng.html