Scientists Find Water on Extra-solar Planet

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @01:54PM from the there-is-no-tea-like-space-tea dept.

amigoro writes "Scientists have, for the first time, conclusively discovered the presence of water vapour in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our Solar System, according to an article appearing in Nature. They made the discovery by analysing the transit of the gas giant HD 189733b across its star, in the Infrared using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. HD 189733b is a 'hot jupiter', a gas giant that is roughly the size and mass of Jupiter but orbits very close to the star, so no chance of life there."

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Re:hmm by tomhudson · 2007-07-11 15:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Scientists Find Water on Extra-solar Planet
The only extra solar planet I know of is Pluto, and we've already had that discussion.

Eat some rally nasty chili and wait a few hours - when you go to the bathroom, they'll be able to find water on Uranus.