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Sitting next to its parent star, this the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b, about 700 light-years from Earth. (NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI))

Lots of Water Detected in Exoplanet WASP 39b Atmosphere

March 5, 2018

Scientists, who studied a “hot Jupiter-like” exoplanet with NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, were able to detect signs of water in its atmosphere. And, they didn’t just find signs of a little water – but a lot of water, three times the amount of water on our solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter. The exoplanet they […]

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