Hubble Detects Organic Molecule on an Extrasolar Planet
U.S. Newswire, March, 2008
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS
Contact: J.D. Harrington of NASA Headquarters, 1-202-358-5241, j.d.harrington@nasa.gov, or Ray Villard of Space Telescope Science Institute, 1-410-338-4514, villard@stsci.edu
WASHINGTON, March 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 19, to report on the first-ever detection of the organic molecule methane in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star.
Though the planet is too hot to support life as we know it, the finding demonstrates the ability to detect organic molecules spectroscopically around Earth-like planets in habitable zones around stars.
Briefing participants are:
-- Dr. Mark Swain, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
--...
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