A team of astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announces the development of a new investigations technique that could help experts determine how many watery extrasolar planets are around Earth. The method was developed based on data from the W. M. Keck Observatory. Detecting water molecules or signatures in exoplanetary atmospheres is not something new, but it’s something that is very hard to do with existing techniques. What the team is proposing ...
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