https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/15/the-smallest-exoplanet-directly-observed/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/15/the-smallest-exoplanet-directly-observed/#comment-2902 Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:13:56 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5104#comment-2902 While its true that planets do reflect light, and in the visible spectrum that’s what dominates, planets do emit light themselves. For Jovian planets, the infrared and radio emissions can be rather strong.

]]> https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/15/the-smallest-exoplanet-directly-observed/#comment-2901 Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:02:48 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5104#comment-2901 Your Firefly metaphor is not great because Fireflies produce their own light, unlike planets.
You could use something like “light reflected off a Moth” instead.

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