A world 20 light-years away reveals surprisingly organized, Jupiter-like weather

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Add as preferred source An artistic depiction of SIMP 0136. Credit: Dr. Evert Nasedkin, Trinity College Dublin Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have developed a way to unravel changing weather patterns on distant worlds. Using this approach, they discovered that the weather on a well-studied brown dwarf, SIMP 0136, previously linked to northern lights-like phenomena, is largely shaped by just two dominant processes: changes in temperature and the vertical structure of its clouds.