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Window on a watery world

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The first definitive signs of water have been seen in the atmosphere of a Neptune-sized exoplanet, paving the way towards the search for water on smaller Earth-like planets. See Letter p.526

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  1. Eliza M. R. Kempton is at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 50112, USA.,

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