This is interesting
<<Two teams of astronomers have for the first time detected water vapor around a small planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a distant star, and they’ve even found hints of rain in its liquid water clouds. The discovery shows that water, considered an essential ingredient for life, exists in the atmospheres of small exoplanets, which astronomers had suspected but never observed.
“It’s superexciting,” says astronomer Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the studies. “No one would have predicted this, even a couple of years ago.”>>
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...ceNow&utm_source=JHubbard&utm_medium=Facebook
<<Two teams of astronomers have for the first time detected water vapor around a small planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a distant star, and they’ve even found hints of rain in its liquid water clouds. The discovery shows that water, considered an essential ingredient for life, exists in the atmospheres of small exoplanets, which astronomers had suspected but never observed.
“It’s superexciting,” says astronomer Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the studies. “No one would have predicted this, even a couple of years ago.”>>
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...ceNow&utm_source=JHubbard&utm_medium=Facebook