DISCOVERY! FIRST ICE CLOUDS FOUND BEYOND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

DYSCOVERY! FIRST ICE CLOUDS FOUND BEYOND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

For  the first time , astronomers have detected  water ice clouds , like the ones that shroud Earth , around a dim celestial body outside of our solar system .

Scientists discovered evidence of the alien water ice clouds in infrared images of a newly discovered  brown dwarf that's as cold as the North Pole .

" Ice clouds are predicted to be very important in the atmosphere  of planets beyond our solar system , but they' ve never been observed outside of it before now ," study leader Jacqueline Faherty    , who is a fellow  at the  Carnegie institution for science in Whasington , D.C., said in a statement . astronomers have detected traces of water ice clouds in the atmosphere , a misfit failed star about 7.2 light - years from  Earth . The discovery is the first time water ice clouds have been found  beyond the solar system , scientists say.