Suddenly found water in the universe

US and Canadian scientists have found steam and carbon oxides in the atmosphere of a planet 129 light-years from Earth.

US and Canadian scientists have found steam and carbon oxides in the atmosphere of a planet 129 light-years from Earth.

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Planet HR-8799.

According to the research leader, astronomer from the University of Toronto, Canada Quinn Konopaski, this is one of four planets around the young star HR-8799 of the Pegasus galaxy system.

This star is seven times heavier than Jupiter and its star by the distance the Pluto is from the Sun. The discovery of steam and carbon oxides is due to the spectral analysis of the planet, with the help of the telescope of the astronomical observatory Kech, located at the top of an inactive volcano named Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

According to Arizona astronomer Travis Barmena of the observatory Lowell: ' A comparative analysis of data on the level of carbon and oxygen in this planet's atmosphere will allow us to better understand how this planetary system born'.

We now know 850 planets outside the solar system. Mostly these are gas-filled planets, hard to survive.

Update 17 December 2018
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