Oxygen, Carbon Found Around Faraway Planet
From Times Wire Reports
The Hubble Space Telescope has detected oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of a distant planet, the first such find around a world outside our solar system, scientists said.
Unlike Earth, the planet is a hot, gassy orb very close to its sun-like star, and the oxygen and carbon are not signs of any sort of life, Hubble scientists said.
Still, astronomers said the findings show that the composition of the atmospheres of planets far away can be measured. The planet is orbiting a star 150 light-years from Earth. A light-year is about 6 trillion miles, the distance light travels in a year.
