Exoplanet reflected light detected for the first time

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Image credit: NASA/ESA

An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Svetlana Berdyugina of ETH Zurich's Institute of Astronomy, has for the first time ever been able to detect and monitor the visible light that is scattered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.

Employing techniques similar to how Polaroid sunglasses filter away reflected sunlight to reduce glare, the team of scientists were able to extract polarized light to enhance the faint reflected starlight 'glare' from an exoplanet.

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Man hasn't even begun to realize all the different planets....gas and solid. What we see in the solar system is just a sampling of millions of different type planets that exit out there.

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Man hasn't even begun to realize all the different planets....gas and solid. What we see in the solar system is just a sampling of millions of different type planets that exit out there.

Like the tip of an iceburg, sort to speak.