Winds of rubies and sapphires strike the sky of giant planet



Artist's impression of planet HAT-P-7b.

Signs of powerful changing winds have been detected on a planet 16 times larger than Earth, over 1000 light years away - the first time ever that weather systems have been found on a gas giant outside our solar system - according to new research by the University of Warwick.

http://phys.org/news/2016-12-rubies-...lanet.html#jCp