The Exoplanet Wasp-107b Is A Gas Giant Clock
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The exoplanet WASP-107b is a gas giant, orbiting a highly active K-type main sequence star. The star is about 200 light-years from Earth. Using spectroscopy, scientists were able to find helium in the escaping atmosphere of the planet, the first detection of this element in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.