Carbon Dioxide Found on Extrasolar Planet

Posted by admin on December 10, 2008

Are you interested in extreterrestrial life? There’s a good news for you. No, there’s no green creatures with antenna yet, but a prerequisite to their existence is found. Hubble space telescope found carbon dioxide on a planet in other solar system.

The Hubble Space Telescope has detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside of the solar system, a significant step in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Though the planet is more similar to Jupiter than Earth and is too hot to harbor life, the ability to identify organic compounds on other planets is key to being able to find other habitable worlds, and potentially life.

Nice job indeed.

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