First planet beyond solar system has been cloud mapped from an exoplanet that is nearly thousands of worlds away.

The cloudy skies have been forecasted for Kepler-7b, which is the name given to the first planet beyond the solar system. This hot, Jupiter-like world is 1000 light years away.

By combining three years worth of infrared and visual observations from NASA's Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes,  a low -resolution map was stitched together showing high clouds in the gas giant's western hemisphere. The first planet beyond the solar system on the eastern side sports clear skies, instead, according to National Geographic.

"With Spitzer and Kepler together, we have a multi-wavelength tool for getting a good look at planets that are trillions of miles away," Paul Hertz, director of NASA's Astrophysics Division in Washington told Science Daily. "We're at a point now in exoplanet science where we are moving beyond just detecting exoplanets, and into the exciting science of understanding them."

There are thousands of candidate planets that are still awaiting analysis. Kepler 7b was one of the first of more than 150 confirmed exoplanets that Kepler has discovered.

"By observing this planet with Spitzer and Kepler for more than three years, we were able to produce a very low-resolution 'map' of this giant, gaseous planet," Brice-Olivier Demory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge told Science Daily. Demory is lead author of a paper accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. "We wouldn't expect to see oceans or continents on this type of world, but we detected a clear, reflective signature that we interpreted as clouds."

The Kepler actually was able to see Kepler-7b circled around its parent star in under seven days as well as the waxing and waning of the moon.

 "Kepler-7b reflects much more light than most giant planets we've found, which we attribute to clouds in the upper atmosphere," Thomas Barclay, Kepler scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center said in a press release. "Unlike those on Earth, the cloud patterns on this planet do not seem to change much over time - it has a remarkably stable climate." Hopes are that this same observation techniques can be applied to smaller, more Earth-like worlds.