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Current Feed ContentHubble detects methane on distant planetNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected methane in the atmosphere of a planet 63 light-years away, marking the first discovery of an organic compound on a planet outside our Solar System. The methane was found on a Jupiter-sized planet named HD 189733b. The planet closely orbits HD 189733, a yellow dwarf star in the constellation Vulpecula. Although methane can play a key role in the chemical reactions needed to form life, the planet is too close to its parent star to support life,...NASA says star system contains 'earth-like planet' in the makingNASA scientists have stated that an "earth-like" planet is currently forming in a star system's 'habitable zone' just over 400 light-years from Earth. The new discovery was made by NASA's Spitzer Space telescope. According to scientists, dust and rock orbiting a 10 million year old star in the system HD 113766 contains "enough [material] to build a Mars-size planet or larger." "The timing for this system to be building an Earth is very good. If the system was too young, its... |
