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February 2, 2004 09:00 AM (EST)

News Release Number: STScI-2004-44

Oxygen and Carbon Found in Atmosphere of an Extrasolar Planet

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Oxygen and Carbon Found in Atmosphere of an Extrasolar PlanetGo to image download page

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected, for the first time ever, the presence of oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system.

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Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI

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