NASA's Hubble Telescope has detected water in the atmospheres of five alien planets which are beyond our solar system.
These five planets are Jupiter size planets which are very hot and unlikely to host life. But this finding of water in other extra solar planets marks a step forward in search of distant planets which may be capable of supporting life.
Two research teams of NASA used the wide field camera 3 of Hubble to analyze starlight passing through the atmospheres of five hot Jupiter like planets which are known as
WASP-17b, HD209458b, WASP-12b, WASP-19b and XO-1b. The atmospheres of all the five planets showed the signs of water with the strongest signs found in the air of
WASP-17b and HD209458b..
These five planets are Jupiter size planets which are very hot and unlikely to host life. But this finding of water in other extra solar planets marks a step forward in search of distant planets which may be capable of supporting life.
Two research teams of NASA used the wide field camera 3 of Hubble to analyze starlight passing through the atmospheres of five hot Jupiter like planets which are known as
WASP-17b, HD209458b, WASP-12b, WASP-19b and XO-1b. The atmospheres of all the five planets showed the signs of water with the strongest signs found in the air of
WASP-17b and HD209458b..
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