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.
- Date
- 2012-05-08
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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