For more than a decade, astronomers have been trying to get a closer look at GJ 1214b, an exoplanet 40 light-years away from Earth. Their biggest obstacle is a thick layer of haze that blankets the planet, shielding it from the probing eyes of space telescopes and stymying efforts to study its atmosphere.
Click here for original story, Researchers measure the light emitted by a sub-Neptune planet’s atmosphere for the first time
Source: Phys.org