SciShow Space: We Found Water on a Habitable Zone Exoplanet

Teacher or professor: SciShow Space
Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: Researchers found water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet about 110 light-years away, and there's another rock from interstellar space flying through our solar system! Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Exoplanet: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0878-9 https://gizmodo.com/water-vapor-detected-in-the-atmosphere-of-a-potentially-1838038882 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/sep/11/rocky-super-earth-k2-18b-named-most-habitable-known-world-beyond-solar-system https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04642 https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2019/09/11/water-detected-on-an-exoplanet-located-in-its-star-s-habitable-zone/ https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/water-vapor-detected-in-the-atmosphere-of-a-temperate-mini-neptune-exoplanet https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2017/12/aa31558-17/aa31558-17.html https://sci.esa.int/web/hubble/-/54681-clear-skies-on-exo-neptune-smallest-exoplanet-ever-found-to-have-water-vapour-heic1420 http://www.planetary.org/explore/the-planetary-report/the-skies-of-mini-neptunes.html Interstellar object: https://gizmodo.com/have-astronomers-just-spotted-another-interstellar-obje-1838052026 https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/wait-another-interstellar-object-is-passing-through-the-solar-system https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K19/K19RA6.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2019/09/11/a-second-interstellar-object-has-almost-certainly-been-found-in-our-solar-system/amp/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/european-comet-interceptor-could-visit-an-interstellar-object/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2019-185 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7280 Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:K2-18_system.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13312 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11026 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_impression_of_%CA%BBOumuamua.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Interstellar_visitors.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gb00234c.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comet2019Q4-InterstellarObject-20190912.gif


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