Hubble Telescope Finds Organic Molecule on Extrasolar Planet
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 03 19th, 2008 | no responses
Courtesy of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
It’s hard enough to imagine a telescope being powerful enough to reach across space to see the deepest reaches of the Universe. Now NASA has found a way to identify individual chemicals in the atmospheres of planets light years away. And, a new discovery by the space agency’s eye in the sky Hubble Telescope is shedding new starlight on an old problem.
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