Astronomers have for the first time measured the temperature variation between the lit and unlit sides of a planet outside the solar system—a difference that’s, literally, night and day.
TWO FACED. Sequence (left to right) shows the hot, bright side of the extrasolar planet Upsilon Andromedae b facing Earth and rotating away at a distance of 40 light years.
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