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First visible light spectrum from exoplanet observed

22 April 2015 Astronomy Now

The first ever direct detection of reflected light from an exoplanet, namely 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet ever discovered around a normal star, has been made by astronomers at the ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile.