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English: This is a transmission spectrum of an Earth-like exoplanet. The graph, based on a simulation, shows what starlight looks like as it passes through the atmosphere of an Earth-like exoplanet. As the exoplanet moves in front of the star, some of the starlight is absorbed by the gas in that exoplanet’s atmosphere and some is transmitted through it. Each element or molecule in the atmosphere’s gas absorbs light at a very specific pattern of wavelengths. This creates a spectrum with dips that show where the wavelengths of light are absorbed, as seen in the graph. Each dip is like a “signature” of that element or molecule.
Date 2 September 2021, 18:30:00 (upload date)
Source Reading an Earth-like Exoplanet’s Transmission Spectrum
Author IMAGE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA, ESA and CSA. NASA Webb material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA/CSA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-03127. Copyright statement at webbtelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the esawebb.org site, use the {{ESA-Webb}} tag.

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