NASA Gets the First Glimpse of Light from Extrasolar Planets

NASA Gets the First Glimpse of Light from Extrasolar Planets

In news, which would excite many space fanatics, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has announced that their Spitzer Space Telescope has taken for the first time the snapshots of the light coming from the two Jupiter-sized planets orbiting extrasolar stars. This is a major discovery by the NASA scientists considering it would now let them study the extrasolar planets.

NASA has during their studies discovered more than 130 planets outside our own Solar System. These latest revelations would now let them photograph some of these heavenly bodies. The discovery was made by two separate teams working at NASA.

A senior representative of the organization Drake Deming of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center spoke to the media: “Spitzer has provided us with a powerful new tool for learning about the temperatures, atmospheres, and orbits of planets hundreds of light-years from Earth.”

The telescope in the limelight, Spitzer Space Telescope was launched back in the August 2003 and it trails behind Earth during its orbit around the sun. It completed the tally of four orbiting Observatories launched by NASA, which consists of Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, and the Chandra X-Ray.