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		ianai on March 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA finds a large amount of water in an exoplanet... That makes me think it’s a pretty substantive amount of water. If we’re getting 3x the spike we see for a planet in our own solar system in a planet lys away then actual content should be much more (due to signal/noise? Just guessing though)

semaphoreP on March 2, 2018 [–]

It's not the absolute value of the signal. What they're measuring the amount of water compared to hydrogen.

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