Illustrations
Artist’s Concept of a Transit
November 27, 2001 · NASA
A planet passes in front of its host star - a celestial event called a transit. Astronomers used such a transit to examine the gas giant orbiting HD 209458 by probing the star's light passing through the planet's atmosphere.
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