This artist concept depicts 55 Cancri e as it orbits its star. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has, for the first time, captured the light emanating from a distant super Earth, a planet more massive than Earth but lighter than Neptune.
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Title: Super Earth Reveals Itself to Spitzer Artist Animation
Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Date Created: 2012-05-08
Rights: JPL
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