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Podcast: Travelers In The Night
Episode: 56E-68-Hubble Finds Three Surprising Dry Exoplanets
Description: Water is essential to life on our planet. Recently, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to study 3 planets orbiting stars similar to our Sun. Astronomers divided the infrared light from these planets into its component colors to see which are present and which are missing. These data provide direct evidence of the amount of water which is present on each planet.