Light from Red-Hot Planet

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCSC2009-01-28

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This figure charts 30 hours of observations taken by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope of a strongly irradiated exoplanet an planet orbiting a star beyond our own. Spitzer measured changes in the planet heat, or infrared light.

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Title: Light from Red-Hot Planet
Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCSC
Date Created: 2009-01-28
Rights: JPL

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