NU Online News Service, March 24, 2005, 2:08 p.m. EST
Scientists have spotted the light of a distant planet using a telescope that shares the same name as a well-known state official.[@@]
A team of scientists led by David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass., has used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to detect infrared light reflected by a Jupiter-size planet orbiting the star Vega.