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A team of researchers have announced they have completed a map of a previously unknown weather system. Unlike other known weather systems however, this map has recorded wind speeds of 5,400 mph, on a planet 63 light-years away.

This new weather map, generated by astrophysicists at the University of Warwick, in Coventry, England, is of exoplanet HD 189733 b. This is a gas giant that is 14% larger than Jupiter, orbiting the star HD 189733 A, found in the constellation of Vulpecula. It is very close to it’s parent star — nearly 13 times closer than Mercury is to the Sun — and orbits it’s star every 2.2 days.
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Astronomers have found hints of a massive, distant, still unseen object at the edge of the solar system. It could be a 10th planet or perhaps a failed companion star, and has an orbit that is 3 trillion miles away.

Two teams of scientists, from England and the University of Louisiana, independently report this conclusion based on the highly elliptical orbits of comets that originate from an icy cloud of debris far beyond Pluto. ?We were driven to this by rejecting everything else we could think of,? says University of Louisiana physicist Daniel Whitmire.
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Astronomers from the University of California in Berkeley have discovered the first solar system other than our own where multiple planets travel in circular orbits around a star.

More than 70 planets have been found outside our solar system, but most travel in tight, erratic orbits around their stars, meaning that their surfaces would be too hot to harbor life as we know it.
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