Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have delivered the first detailed weather report of a nearby rogue world, and it's stormier than expected.
Planetary formation has, by and large, been well understood and it involves flat discs of dust and gas slowly coalescing into new alien worlds. New research has just been published which seems to give that familiar process a bit of a twist. The international team of researchers behind the study and led by Dr Andrew Winter from Queen Mary University of London, have discovered compelling evidence that many protoplanetary discs are in fact subtly warped.
