The "Hubble" space telescope located a planet with an atmosphere of oxygen and carbon in a distant solar system. The first time a planet with such an atmosphere has been discovered. The joy is early - this is a hot Jupiter from which the hydrogen has escaped and not a planet similar in some way to the Earth. Its distance from us is about 150 light years.
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The Hubble Space Telescope discovered oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of a distant planet. This is the first time that these elements have been discovered around a star outside the solar system. scientists said on Monday.
Unlike Earth, the discovered planet is hot and gaseous, very close to a Sun-like planet, and therefore the oxygen and carbon are not signs of any kind of life, scientists from the Space Telescope Science Center said.
Still, astronomers say the findings show that the chemical composition of the atmospheres of planets many light-years away from us is measurable.
The planet HD 209458b and now also called Osiris, orbits a star located 150 light years from Earth. A light year is about ten trillion kilometers. Orysis orbits its star at a distance of about 7 million kilometers - compared to the 150 million kilometers that separate Earth from the Sun. It orbits its sun in less than four days.
The planet belongs to the type known as "hot Jupiters", in which the upper atmosphere is so hot that the hydrogen evaporates into space.
As you may remember, NASA recently announced that it will stop maintaining the Hubble Space Telescope and therefore shorten its life.
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