The Hubble Space Telescope, set for installation of new equipment and repair by space shuttle astronauts next May, has made an outstanding new discovery of a Jupiter-sized planet, called HD 189733b, with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere orbiting its parent star.The significance of the HST find is that the basic chemistry for life can be measured on planets orbiting other stars setting the scientific standard on which finding the chemical biotracers of life as we know it on other worlds is now possible. Here is more from the ESA, Scientific American, and Wired.
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