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 Lee Duna   ( @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz )  to SpaceEnglish · 2 years ago

NASA Just Announced The Discovery of Methane on a Distant Exoplanet

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NASA Just Announced The Discovery of Methane on a Distant Exoplanet

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 Lee Duna   ( @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz )  to SpaceEnglish · 2 years ago
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If there's one chemical that causes excitement in the search for biosignatures on other worlds, it's methane.
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    There are many other ways of making methane, it’s not a very complicated molecule: CH4. It gets exciting when there’s a lot of it, because it’s not the most energetically stable molecule.

    EDIT: looks like the article goes into it.

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