NASA finds CO2 in an exoplanet's atmosphere

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has become known for catching shocking pictures of space. 

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the telescope as of late made an alternate sort of disclosure - - the main obvious proof of carbon dioxide in the air of a planet outside the nearby planet group.

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The CO2 - the compound people inhale out - was found in the air of a planet circling a star 700 light-years away, NASA said.

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The hot gas goliath planet was found in 2011 and has been named WASP-39 b.

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Its mass is approximately one-quarter Jupiter's and about equivalent to Saturn's. In any case, its width is 1.3 times greater than Jupiter's.

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The finding shows that the Webb Space Telescope might have the option to distinguish and quantify carbon dioxide in the more slender environments of more modest rough planets later on.

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NASA's Hubble and Spitzer have distinguished water fume, sodium and potassium in the climate of WASP-39 b.