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...team examined “HD 189733b,” a large, gaseous planet similar to Jupiter. It is 60 light-years from Earth...
Astronomers have measured the infrared spectrum of a planet outside our solar system for the first time ever, though they failed to find what they were looking for: signs of water or other molecules necessary for life...
...What we’d love to do is to take a picture of the planet,” he said...
Despite the failure to find water, Charbonneau said he believes the high pressure on the hot, massive planet could have brought hydrogen and oxygen together to create water...
...second planet, HD 209458b, studied by L. Jeremy Richardson of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, shows signs of silicates in the atmosphere, according to a press release from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...