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NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has for the first time measured light from two gas planets orbiting distant stars far beyond our solar system, adding crucial features to astronomy’s
portrait of faraway worlds. Studies of the infrared light by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., suggest they are made of swirling gases that reach a broiling 1,340 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
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