Hubble Finds Water Vapor On Distant Exoplanet

On September 11, 2019 NASA Goddard Space FLight Center Reported that Hubble found water vapor on a distant exoplanet. This is an interesting short video, which you might be interested in...

"With data from the Hubble Space Telescope, water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of an exoplanet within the habitable zone of its host star.

K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is the only planet orbiting a star outside the solar system (or “exoplanet”) within the habitable zone.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul R. Morris (USRA): Lead Producer

Music credits: "Only Human" by Guillaume Bernard [SACEM]; Universal Production Music

This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13312"