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How to Pluck a Spectrum from a Planet
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This diagram illustrates how astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope can capture the elusive spectra of hot-Jupiter planets. Spectra are an object light spread apart into its basic components, or wavelengths.
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Credit lineHow to Pluck a Spectrum from a Planet. NASA/JPL, 2007-02-21. Public domain. ID: PIA09196.
