Search for the water of life -- Astronomers find water on extra-solar planet

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An artists impression of HD 189733b and its star as though viewed using infrared. Credit: ESA - C. Carreau
An artist's impression of HD 189733b and its star as though viewed using infrared. Credit: ESA - C. Carreau

Researchers at UCL (University College London) are part of an international team which has discovered water on an extra-solar planet for the first time. Findings will be published in this week’s Nature.


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