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Hydroxyl Molecule Common on Earth Detected for the First Time in Ultra-Hot Exoplanet’s Atmosphere – Science Times

An international collaboration of astronomers has detected the hydroxyl molecule common on Earth in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-33b, or also called “ultra-hot…

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An international team of astronomers led by Dr. StevanusNugroho from the Astrobiology Center and Queen’s University Belfast, and researchers from Trinity College Dublin, have detected the molecule hydroxyl (HO) in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.
Although hydroxyl may be common on Earth, astronomers have not yet determined how abundant it could be in other planets beyond the Solar System. The discovery of the molecule in the ultra-hot Jupiter planet called WASP-33b is the first time, according to…

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