For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has peered into the atmosphere of a distant planet and unambiguously confirmed the presence of water vapor there.
WASP-96 b is a hot, puffy gas giant orbiting a star about 1,150 light-years away. It's a little larger than Jupiter, but has less than half the mass of Jupiter. That makes it much puffier and less dense than any planet orbiting the sun.
Webb reveals steamy atmosphere of distant planet in detail
While the Hubble Space Telescope has analyzed numerous exoplanet atmospheres over the past two decades, capturing the first clear detection of water in 2013, Webb's immediate and more detailed observation marks a giant leap forward in the quest to characterize potentially habitable planets ...
World's most powerful telescope captures 'water signature' on distant planet | Science ...
How China is creating new foods in space - BBC Future
At first glance they are identical to any other ears of wheat swaying in the wind all over the world. But the vast fields of crops in north-eastern China are no ordinary plants – they were created in outer space.
They are a variety known as Luyuan 502 and are China's second most widely grown type of wheat . The plants were bred from seeds that were flown into orbit 200 miles (340km) above the Earth's surface.
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