Alien Atmosphere Hubbled

b-side.org writes "Yahoo! News has a story on yon giant hubble mirrorscope thingy locating an alien, mostly sodium, atmosphere. X10.com popunder ads also included free of charge." Mm....let's mix that atmosphere with water. T cuts in: This turns out to be the major discovery hinted at a few days ago.

Comments

wtf?

[deglr6328]

Could you possibly have chosen a more incoherent and factually incorrect submission for posting? The atmosphere is not mostly sodium as "b-side.org" seemingly just guessed. The reason sodium was measured is because it is relatively easy to detect. NASA has a more informative story.

Re:wtf?

[cperciva]

Reuters are idiots. From the NASA press release:
The astronomers actually saw less sodium than predicted for the Jupiter-class planet

Re:Drake Equation

[the_2nd_coming]

what has it been restricted to? the outer ring because of the lower amount of radiation?

1) we have only found mant Jovian planets because our technology make them easiest to find and Terran type planets would have to be implyed in minuet almost imperceptable shifts in the angle of light coming from the Jovian planet as the terren planet passes it in orbit.

2) Moons around Jovian planets may also house life....moons tend to be made of Rock and most Jovian planets found have been 10-50 times the size of Jupider so those size plantes could easily house an earth sized moon.

3) the Universe is a huge undefinable place.

Re:X10 pop under ads

[Anonymous DWord]

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