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...The discovery (water vapor) was made by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which possesses a particularly keen ability to study nearby stars and their exoplanets. HD 189733b is located 63 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula...<br /><br />"Water is the quintessence of life as we know it," says Yuk Yung, a professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology and one of the authors of a paper appearing in this week's journal Nature. "It is exciting to find that it is as abundant in another solar system as it is in ours."<br /><br /><br />Coauthor, Mao-Chang Liang of Caltech and the Research Center for Environmental Changes in Taiwan said, "The discovery of water is the key to the discovery of alien life." --<br /><br />http://mr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR13014.html<br /><br />------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Water which is one of the most important ingredients for life, not only is abubdent in our solar system. Now we have the evidence that it also exists in other exosolar system which will make the exciting finding for life elsewhere outside our own.<br /><br /><br />