Measuring Brightness of Super Earth 55 Cancri e
This graphic illuminates the process by which astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, detected the light from a super Earth planet.
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PIA15624
Date Created
May 8, 2012
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JPL
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