Volcano Explanet L 98-59 b illustration
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
With a seemingly sulfury atmosphere, the alien world may be the most volcanic planet astronomers have ever discovered.
As current telescopes are not strong enough to capture images of exoplanet surfaces, they have not directly detected volcanic activity outside the solar system. They may be able to find alien volcanoes by measuring the gases they send into the planet’s atmosphere, but this is also at the very limits of what telescopes today can do.
Source: www.newscientist.com
