Astronomers detect starlight reflected off an extrasolar planet
![51 Pegasi b (artist's conception) is the first exoplanet from which astronomers have detected visible reflected starlight.](http://news.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_article_l/public/sn-exoplanet_0.jpg?itok=_hfKjtX1)
For the first time, astronomers have detected visible starlight reflecting off a planet orbiting a distant star. The telescope used in the discovery was too small to tell scientists much new about the previously discovered planet. But astronomers say the new tec
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