Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope to study the atmospheres of ten hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets in detail, the largest number of such planets ever studied. The team was able to discover why some of these worlds seem to have less water than expected — a long-standing mystery. The results are published in "Nature".
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1524/
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The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
14 December 2015
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