Illustration of the volcanic exoplanet L 98-59 b. Image courtesy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Joel Kontinen
The more we know about exoplanets, the mysterious they
become. Now a planet with a large volcanic world has just ben found.
“An
alien world with a seemingly sulphur-filled atmosphere may be the most volcanic
planet astronomers have ever spotted.
We have never
directly detected volcanic activity outside our solar system, in part because current
telescopes aren’t powerful enough to take images of exoplanets’ surfaces. We
might be able to spot alien volcanoes by measuring the gases they pump into a
planet’s atmosphere, but this is also at the very limit of what current
telescopes can do – there have been tantalising hints of atmospheres on rocky
surface.”
Source:
Alex Wilkins 2025 Distant exoplanet may be the most volcanic world ever found | New Scientist 10 February
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