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The Light and Dark Sides of a Distant Planet
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About this work
The top graph consists of infrared data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. It tells astronomers that a distant planet, called Upsilon Andromedae b, always has a giant hot spot on the side that faces the star, while the other side is cold and dark.
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Credit lineThe Light and Dark Sides of a Distant Planet. NASA/JPL, 2006-10-12. Public domain. ID: PIA01937.
