Spectrum of Extrasolar Planet Reported

This C&EN article summarizes the results of some researchers led by L. Jeremy Richardson, of the Goddard Space Flight Center’s Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory. They report the the first spectrum of an extrasolar planet, an IR spectrum of a planet transiting HD 209458. It is 150 light years from earth, in the Pegasus constellation, and visible through binoculars. Read the details here.