Using the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain the data, Professor University of Exeter Frederick – Berndt draw the distant outer planet HD 209458 The amazing “sunset” image. HD 209458 150 light years from Earth, also known as “Osiris”, the first time in 2007 its scientists to scan the atmosphere, is the first one they found that the atmosphere contains water vapor extrasolar planets.

Berndt said: “The surprising thing is that we know very well that HD 209458 on the ‘Sunset’ is how the big picture. ‘Sunset’ color by collecting its parent star in front of the transmission through the atmosphere when the measured spectral data and draw. “In the atmosphere of HD 209458 observations, the Hubble telescope to collect information about its chemical characteristics, such information to the form of various wavelengths of light, such as color.

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