How to Find a Planetary Hot Spot
This graph of data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows how astronomers located a hot spot on a distant gas planet named upsilon Andromedae b. Termed an exoplanet, it orbits a star beyond our sun, and whips around very closely to its star.
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PIA13495
Date Created
October 19, 2010
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JPL
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