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NASA Just Announced The Discovery of Methane on a Distant Exoplanet (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] korewa@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Methane, meaning farts? Which means possible organism?

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are many other ways of making methane, it's not a very complicated molecule: CH4. It gets exciting when there's a lot of it, because it's not the most energetically stable molecule.

EDIT: looks like the article goes into it.