© 2025
Local NPR for the Cape, Coast & Islands 90.1 91.1 94.3
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Looking Skyward: Watching a Distant Volcano

CAI
Published March 19, 2021 at 2:18 PM EDT
Astronomers have recently announced that they might have found evidence that volcanic activity is creating a new atmosphere on an exoplanet orbiting a nearby star.
NASA,ESA and R. Hurt/PAC/Caltech
Astronomers have recently announced that they might have found evidence that volcanic activity is creating a new atmosphere on an exoplanet orbiting a nearby star.

CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about new observations of the impact of a volcano on a distant exoplanet.
In This Place