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Published online 10 December 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1289
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Exoplanet may harbour stormy skies
Signs of water and, perhaps, weather on a distant 'hot Jupiter'.
Astronomers have detected water, and possibly even the first signs of weather, on a planet outside our Solar System1. The gas giant, which orbits a star 63 light years from Earth, also has carbon dioxide and methane in its atmosphere, according to recent reports.
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