Scientists in first time have seen water vapor in the atmosphere of an exoplanet Tau Bootis

As reported in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of scientists, which led by Alexander Lockwood from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and Geoffrey Blake of the California Institute of Technology, for the first time able to see the water vapor in the upper atmosphere of the giant extrasolar planets in binary star Tau Bootis, using new methods of observation, which is based on fluctuations in the spectrum of the star during its interaction with the planets. Using this methodology, it became possible to determine not only the mass and dimensions of exoplanets, but also to learn the approximate chemical composition of its atmosphere, it is thus in the process of observation was established the presence of water vapor in the atmosphere of one extrasolar planets in binary star Tau Bootis, VIDEO: [link to clck.ru]


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