💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🪐🔭 For the first time, astronomers have detected an #atmosphere on a rocky #planet in the habitable zone of another #star.
The super-Earth LHS 1140 b, located 50 light years away, shows signs of a #helium dominated atmosphere escaping into #space. Researchers used the WINERED #spectrograph at Las Campanas Observatory to make the ground-based #discovery.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-astronomers-have-detected-an-atmosphere-around-a-rocky-planet-in-the-habitable-zone
#astronomy #exoplanet #superearth #habitablezone #spectrograph #lhs1140b #science #reddwarf #harvard
