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Astronomers: ‘First Evidence’ Of Water Clouds Discovered Outside Solar System
Astronomers say they’ve discovered water ice clouds on a “brown dwarf” just 7.3 light-years from Earth – the first candidate outside our own solar system to have direct evidence of water clouds. The water ice clouds were discovered by Kevin Luhman, an astronomer at Penn State University, using NASA’s WISE infrared space telescope, Science Mag reports. The water ice clouds, if confirmed, would be less than twice the distance of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our sun.
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