Small, cool and sulfurous exoplanet may help write recipe for planetary formation

Credit: University of Wisconsin–Madison

The sulfur-laden atmosphere discovered on gaseous exoplanet GJ 3470 b, show here in an illustration orbiting its star in the constellation Cancer, could help researchers figure out how it (and similar planets) were formed.

« Small, cool and sulfurous exoplanet may help write recipe for planetary formation

Credit: University of Wisconsin–Madison

Thomas Beatty is an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

« Small, cool and sulfurous exoplanet may help write recipe for planetary formation

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