Exoplanetary Atmosphere Categorization Begins

A new paper presented a catalog of 25 exoplanets observed using hundreds of hours of observing time on the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes.

IMAGE: Artist’s conceptual image of the 25 exoplanets examined in this study. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann

Not every world we talk is, of course, in our own solar system. There are over 5,000 confirmed exoplanets out there in our galaxy, and every day, we…