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New Technique Finds Water in Exoplanet Atmospheres
Artist’s concept of a hot Jupiter exoplanet orbiting a star similar to tau Boötes (Image used with permission of David Aguilar, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
As more and more exoplanets are identified and confirmed by various observational methods, the still-elusive “holy grail” is the discovery of a truly Earthlike world… one of the hallmarks of which is the presence of liquid water. And while it’s true that water has been identified in the thick atmospheres of “hot Jupiter” exoplanets before, a new technique has now been used to spot its spectral signature in yet another giant world outside our solar system — potentially paving the way for even more such discoveries.
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Post tags: Astronomy, exoplanet, hot jupiter, infrared, James Webb, Keck, Kepler, space, super earth, Tau Bootis b, water
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/109731/new-technique-finds-water-in-exoplanet-atmospheres/
