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Extrasolar Planet's Light Observed

Last week we ran a story about a visually-detected planet orbiting HD 209458 - its star dimmed when the planet passed before it. Today, Richey points us to a "a BBC story about how astronomers have actually picked up light reflecting off an extrasolar planet. They've managed to perform a basic analysis of its atmosphere from it." Check out the three elements they believe they found.

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