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| Tango01 | 08 Mar 2014 1:06 p.m. PST |
"Astronomers have recently discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system, using a novel technique – they believe that this new method could reveal more and more planets which feature water; so far, all life as we know it, is based on water. They made their discovery on a Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting the nearby star tau Boötis.
Researchers had already discovered water vapor on a handful of planets – but there were only two ways of doing this, both pretty limited:
- the first one worked only if the studied planet has an orbit that passes it in front of its star, when viewed from Earth.
- the other method worked only if he planet is sufficiently far away from its host star. Needless to say, most of the exoplanets don't fill into either of these categories – so it was virtually impossible to find water…"
Full article here.
link If there are water… Amicalement
Armand |
| GonerGonerGoner | 08 Mar 2014 1:19 p.m. PST |
From February 26. All the news that's fit to print… |
| Angel Barracks | 08 Mar 2014 1:21 p.m. PST |
If there are water… We can make tea.
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| Mako11 | 08 Mar 2014 1:55 p.m. PST |
Excellent! Any nice, soft sand beaches, with warm, clear water? |
Dave Jackson  | 08 Mar 2014 3:11 p.m. PST |
I'm pretty sure we'll find that water and life are some of the most common things in the universe |
| jgawne | 08 Mar 2014 4:48 p.m. PST |
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| Brian Smaller | 08 Mar 2014 5:52 p.m. PST |
Excellent! Any nice, soft sand beaches, with warm, clear water?
Book your holiday to Zegema Beach now! Want to know more? |
| Sundance | 08 Mar 2014 7:50 p.m. PST |
Angel Barracks, I presume you'll have to bring your own cream, however. |
| jpattern2 | 09 Mar 2014 8:36 a.m. PST |
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| brass1 | 09 Mar 2014 2:15 p.m. PST |
I'm pretty sure we'll find that water and life are some of the most common things in the universe But will any of it be pure water and intelligent life? Using the only metric we have (our own planet), the two don't seem to coexist very well. LT |
| Dave Jackson | 10 Mar 2014 4:57 a.m. PST |
If anyone remembers the comic strip "B.C", Thor and Peter are lounging near a rock and Peter says "I wonder if other planets also have intelligent life"…after a pause, Thor says "Also?" Haha. Love that BC! |
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