Exoplanet Gas Spotted From Earth

Photo: The team used Nasa's Nasa's Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii

From The BBC:

Astronomers have used a new ground-based technique to study the atmospheres of planets outside our Solar System.

The work could assist the search for Earth-like planets with traces of organic, or carbon-rich, molecules.

Astronomers spotted evidence of methane gas in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.

Gases have previously been discerned on exoplanets before, but only by using space-based telescopes.

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