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Cracking the Code of Faraway Worlds
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This infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope -- called a spectrum -- tells astronomers that a distant gas planet, a so-called "hot Jupiter" called HD 209458b, might be smothered with high clouds. It is one of the first spectra of an alien world. A spectrum is created when an instrument called a spectrograph cracks light from an object open into a rainbow of different wavelengths.
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Credit lineCracking the Code of Faraway Worlds. NASA, 2007-02-21. Public domain. ID: PIA09198.
