New technique allows analysis of clouds around exoplanets

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"We are really doing nothing more complicated than putting a telescope into space and staring at a star with a camera," Cahoy says. "Then we can use what we know about the universe, in terms of temperatures and pressures, how things mix, how they stratify in an atmosphere, to try to figure out what mix of things would be causing the observations that we're seeing from these very basic instruments," she says.

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