Search for the water of life - UCL astronomers find water on extra-solar planet

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Researchers at UCL (University College London) are part of an international team which has discovered water on an extra-solar planet for the first time. Findings will be published in this week’s Nature (July 12).
 

[span class=imagecaption]An artist’s impression of HD 189733b and its star (credit: ESA - C. Carreau)[/span]

‘Extra-solar’ planets are those outside our Solar System and more than 200 have been discovered orbiting stars close to our own Sun. The planet with water in its atmosphere is known as HD 189733b, and orbits a star in the constellation of Vulpecula the. . .