A blue, neptune-size exoplanet around a red dwarf star
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 14:30
in Astronomy & Space
A team of astronomers have used the LCOGT network to detect light scattered by tiny particles (called Rayleigh scattering), through the atmosphere of a Neptune-size transiting exoplanet. This suggests a blue sky on this world which is only 100 light years away from us. The result was published in the Astrophysical Journal on November 20 (and is available on ArXiV).