Difference between Astrophysics and Planetary Science?

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Planetary science is properly a subset of astrophysics.
Neither and both are "responsible" for the cloud map of an exo-planet.
Who gets the credit depends on where it was first published... but, since the map is from direct observation, I'd say it was "astronomy".