The best looks that we’ve been able to get at exoplanets are when they pass in front of or behind their parent stars. When that happens, sometimes, if we’re lucky, we can get a brief hint atmosphere. For the first time, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has managed to observe a “super-Earth” directly, watching it glow in the infrared.
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