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NASA's New Telescope Finds Exoplanet Atmosphere

celticryan writes "NASA's new telescope has made a promising discovery. 'As NASA's first exoplanets mission, Kepler has made a dramatic entrance on the planet-hunting scene,' said Jon Morse, director of the Science Mission Directorate's Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. 'Detecting this planet's atmosphere in just the first 10 days of data is only a taste of things to come. The planet hunt is on!'"

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  1. lame by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 0, Troll

    They tell us "we've detected the atmosphere" but don't tell us what the atmosphere is made of. Nice.

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