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Waterless planets surprise astronomers (AP)

This undated artist's conception released by NASA shows extrasolar planet HD 209458 b, also known as Osiris, orbiting its star in a constellation Pegasus, some 150 light years from Earth's solar system. Scientists have used an infrared spectrum, a first ever obtained for an extrasolar planet, to analyze Osiris' atmosphere, which is said to contain dust but no water.(AFP/NASA)Drunk News - Scientists taking air first “sniffs of air” from planets outside our solar system are a bit baffled by what ay didn’t find: water. One of a more basic assumptions of astronomy is that a two distant, hot gaseous planets ay examined must contain water in air atmospheres.

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