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When a planet with an atmosphere eclipses its star, light passes through its atmosphere and the molecules in the atmosphere will absorb specific frequencies of
by not2b 3y ago
When a planet with an atmosphere eclipses its star, light passes through its atmosphere and the molecules in the atmosphere will absorb specific frequencies of light.
See https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/discovery/how-we-find-and-characterize/ https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/discovery/how-we-find-and-charac...