Spectrum of young extrasolar planet yields surprising results
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 15:35
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the University of Hawaii have measured the temperature of a young gas-giant planet around another star using the W. M. Keck Observatory, and the results are puzzling. They have found that its atmosphere is unlike that of any previously studied extrasolar planet.