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Synopsis: Domenii: Space: Space generale: Celestial body: Planet: Gas giant:

and almost certainly Jupiter-like gas giants, making making them quite unlikely for hosting life. None has so far been confirmed to bear life#even single-cell organisms

But even with these adaptive optics tools, existing ground-based telescopes can only"see#planets bigger than Jupiter#gas giants that orbit their parent stars at a huge distance.

Evidence for water outside our solar system has previously been found in the atmosphere of gas giants

The dense atmospheres of gas giants Jupiter and Saturn contain carbon. Chemical modelling suggests pressure deep inside the planets would crush it into a rain of diamond chips

The team's data can now be used to improve models of gas giants and the suspected diamond in their depths.

and become the cores of gas giants like Jupiter. But there is a catch. According to models of this process as the clumps get larger they feel more drag as they move through the gas and dust.

Previous Jupiter-like exoplanets have shown only faint traces of methane, far different from the heavy methane atmospheres of the gas giants in our solar system.

whether distant exoplanets they discover are rocky worlds like Earth or less dense gas giants like Jupiter.

Only large gas giants or super-earths close to their host stars have enough gravity to cause those changes.

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