Evidence of water has been detected for the first time in a planet outside our solar system, an astronomer said on Tuesday, a tantalizing find for scientists eager to know whether life exists beyond Earth.
Travis Barman, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, said water vapor has been found in the atmosphere of a large, Jupiter-like gaseous planet located 150 light years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. The planet is known as HD 209458b.
Thank God I can now drive my giant gas guzzling SUV over small animals while sipping my Starbucks Caffe' Verona on the way to my job of using reams of paper for useless documents and depleting our rain forests without feeling a stitch of guilt. Some of that was really starting to bother me.
I wonder how soon I can purchase my ticket to my new home on planet HD 209458b? I hope I get there before all of the pristine water vapor gets sucked up for some assholes jacuzzi.
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