Researchers found water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet about 110 light-years away, and there’s another rock from interstellar space flying through our solar system!
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Sources:
Exoplanet:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0878-9
https://gizmodo.com/water-vapor-detected-in-the-atmosphere-of-a-potentially-1838038882
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/sep/11/rocky-super-earth-k2-18b-named-most-habitable-known-world-beyond-solar-system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04642
https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2019/09/11/water-detected-on-an-exoplanet-located-in-its-star-s-habitable-zone/
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/water-vapor-detected-in-the-atmosphere-of-a-temperate-mini-neptune-exoplanet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2017/12/aa31558-17/aa31558-17.html
https://sci.esa.int/web/hubble/-/54681-clear-skies-on-exo-neptune-smallest-exoplanet-ever-found-to-have-water-vapour-heic1420
http://www.planetary.org/explore/the-planetary-report/the-skies-of-mini-neptunes.html
Interstellar object:
https://gizmodo.com/have-astronomers-just-spotted-another-interstellar-obje-1838052026
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/wait-another-interstellar-object-is-passing-through-the-solar-system
https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K19/K19RA6.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2019/09/11/a-second-interstellar-object-has-almost-certainly-been-found-in-our-solar-system/amp/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/european-comet-interceptor-could-visit-an-interstellar-object/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2019-185
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7280
Images:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:K2-18_system.jpg
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13312
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_impression_of_%CA%BBOumuamua.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Interstellar_visitors.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gb00234c.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comet2019Q4-InterstellarObject-20190912.gif
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