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 Margir rated 7 months ago- From the page: "A carbon-containing molecule has been detected for the first time on a planet outside our Solar System.
"The organic compound methane was found in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star some 63 light years away.
"Water has also been found in its atmosphere, b...
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- darkfire79 rated 7 months ago
- I bet they have lots of cows
- johnwatchtower rated 7 months ago
- A carbon-containing molecule has been detected for the first time on a planet outside our Solar System.
- msgagan rated 7 months ago
- we are the only once living in the universe ? best wishes to the reserchers
- Margir rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "A carbon-containing molecule has been detected for the first time on a planet outside our Solar System.
"The organic compound methane was found in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star some 63 light years away.
"Water has also been found in its atmosphere, but scientists say the planet is far too hot to support life."
Ha, Acompass beat me to it!: "can hear the fart jokes coming light-years away."
- BIGRED73 rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "Methane found on distant world "
- tfob rated 7 months ago
- We all know that carbon exists. If it didn't, I wouldn't be writing this!
Nevertheless, the discovery of carbon-based methane in the atmosphere of extra-solar planet demonstrates the progress that scientists have made in analyzing the atmospheric composition of alien planets. This ranks first among similar discoveries when one considers the hundred billion planets orbiting a hundred billion stars, which compose the hundred billion or so galaxies in our universe!
- TheDeadBeat rated 7 months ago
- Awesome discovery.
- jennosborne rated 7 months ago
- Another reminder of how little we know
- Stellare rated 7 months ago
- A "little fox" with methane spotted!
The organic compound methane was found in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star some 63 light years away.
Under certain circumstances, methane can play a key role in prebiotic chemistry - the chemical reactions considered necessary to form life.
This is the first time we have found organic matter outside our solar system.
Vulpecula - the little fox
The planet, HD 189733b, now known to have methane and water vapour is located 63 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula, the little fox. HD 189733b, a "hot Jupiter"-type extrasolar planet, is so close to its parent star that it takes just over two days to complete an orbit. "Hot Jupiters" are the size of Jupiter but orbit closer to their stars than the tiny innermost planet Mercury in our Solar System. HD 189733b's atmosphere swelters at 900 degrees C, about the same temperature as the melting point of silver.
The discovery was done with Hubble (and...)in a joint European and US scientific research project.
Here is a collection of links with more information:
Hubblesite
European Space Agency
- chaud rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "The discovery, unveiled in the journal Nature, is an important step towards exploring new worlds that might be more hospitable to life, they say."
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