The carbon dioxide was discovered in the atmosphere of a giant hot and gaseous planetary object named the WASP-39b, located at a distance of 700 light-years from Earth and in the constellation Virgo

The prize is shared by James Peebles, for his seminal theoretical predictions about the early universe and formation of galaxies, and Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz, who were first to discover an planet that revolves around distant sun like star.