Contact: Professor Svetlana Berdyugina
sveta@astro.phys.ethz.ch
41-076-325-4143
ETH Zurich/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Caption: An artistic view of the HD189733 star-planet system near a half-moon phase when polarization of the light reflected by the planet reaches the maximum.
Credit: ETH Zurich, S.V. Berdyugina
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