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The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered sodium chloride and potassium chloride (salt) clouds in the atmosphere of WASP-107b, a \"puffy\" hot Saturn 1,200 light-years away. This unexpected finding contradicts existing planetary models, suggesting that our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres is incomplete and that previous data from other planets may have been misread.

The "Pink Planet" Discovery That Just Rewrote Astronomy Textbooks
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The "Pink Planet" Discovery That Just Rewrote Astronomy Textbooks

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178Video ViewsJun 19, 2026