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Web telescope spots first changing water clouds beyond our solar system
Partly cloudy, light-years away.
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Astronomers have watched Earth-like clouds drift and shift on a cold, distant world, the first time they've seen that beyond our solar system.The world, WISE 0855, lies 7.5 light-years away in space. Astronomers classify it as a brown dwarf, something that is too large to be a gas giant planet but too small to burn like a star.Though WISE 0855 doesn't have much in common with our planet, it does have clouds made of water like Earth's. Using NASA's James…
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