
This figure charts 30 hours of observations taken by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope of a strongly irradiated exoplanet an planet orbiting a star beyond our own. Spitzer measured changes in the planet heat, or infrared light.
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NASA ID
PIA11390
Date Created
January 28, 2009
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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