A team of scientists have developed simulated 3-D exotic clouds on an exoplanet in order to determine how the clouds would look like on the celestial body.

Benjamin Charnay from University of Washington found that the exoplanet GJ1214b had a flat spectrum and some object in the planet's upper atmosphere blocked light and this made it impossible for the scientists to study its atmosphere.Charnay then decided to develop a simulated version of the clouds.

Charnay and the team computationally model what its atmosphere could be based on the information of planet's temperature and composition. The team is the first to simulate three-dimensional exotic clouds in the atmosphere of another world.

Charnay said, "When an exoplanet passes in front of its star, light can be absorbed at some wavelengths by molecules in the atmosphere, which we can analyze by looking at how light passes through the planet's atmosphere.But for this planet, when researchers previously looked with the Hubble Space Telescope, they saw almost no variation with wavelength of light."

Scientists have been able to catalogued nearly 2,000 exoplanets near and far through improved techniques and spacecraft.