Corey S Powell on Nostr: It's hard to describe how challenging it is to detect air on a planet 49 light years ...

It's hard to describe how challenging it is to detect air on a planet 49 light years from Earth. Imagine figuring out how to collect these data...then to look at these results and realize, "I see traces of a helium atmosphere!"

But they did it. Full paper:

https://www.science.org/content/article/astronomers-spot-first-atmosphere-around-potentially-habitable-alien-world #space #science #nature #tech