Re:Major Breakthrough: First Photos of Planets Around Other ...
by mellow on Friday November 14, 2008 @08:35AM
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I realise they would have done this already if they could. I was thinking more in the medium term - the next 3-5 years?
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Re:Major Breakthrough: First Photos of Planets Around Other ...
by lutorm on Friday November 14, 2008 @01:32PM
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Actually, they have. There are observations with the Spitzer space telescope infrared spectrograph of planets occulting their star, where if I'm not mistaken one could see something like methane absorption signatures of the atmosphere of the planets. That's not very surprising, since these are Jupiter-like planets and they have methane clouds in their atmosphere.