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The first exoplanet was discovered in 1992 and it opened up a new era of planetary science. Eight years later, a group of astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) took a series of infrared images of a brown dwarf. What they didn’t know at the time was they had also taken the first ever... Continue Reading →
In a first for an exoplanet, astronomers have announced the detection of water vapour in the atmosphere of K2-18b. The planet lies in the habitable zone—a region around a star where water exists in a liquid state on a planet’s surface. It’s also an area where astronomers believe they’ll have the best chance of finding... Continue Reading →