Some hot exoplanets may develop strange sets of four colossal storms

By Leah Crane

Simulation of a modon connected an exoplanet, with storms that rotate successful other directions astatine other poles

J. W. Skinner, Queen Mary University of London and J. Y-K. Cho, Flatiron Institute

Some elephantine planets whitethorn have two tremendous pairs of storms that disturbance up their atmospheres. These colossal couples, called modons, rotation successful other directions and are expected to wholly predominate the dynamics of their worlds.

Many immense exoplanets that orbit adjacent to their stars, called hot Jupiters, are expected to go tidally locked, meaning that the aforesaid broadside of the satellite faces the prima astatine each times. Because the vigor from the prima is …