Webb telescope finds strange particles in planet's alien clouds Earth's surface teems with quartz. But on a giant world 1,300 light-years away, quartz zips through the planet's clouds.
Scientists pointed the James Webb Space Telescope — the most powerful observatory in space — at planet WASP-17 b, a gas giant world with temperatures of some 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit (1,500 degrees Celsius). For the first time, the researchers...