Spitzer sees the glow of a boiling planet
– blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/
Since the first planet was discovered orbiting another Sun-like star in 1995, nearly 800 more have been discovered. Only a handful have been directly detected: most are discovered by their influence on their star, either by tugging it or blocking its light as the planet orbits (at the bottom of this post is a gallery of images of exoplanets detected in these ways)…Continue Reading On blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/ »