... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Star Atlas . ... Searching for Far Out and Wandering Worlds . ... stars . ... Sifting through the atmospheres of far-off worlds . ... The star is a hundred thousand times as bright as the planets, so we ve developed ways to remove that starlight and isolate the extremely faint light of the planets. ... Capturing a distant world s spectrum requires gathering even more planet light, and that means further blocking the glare of the star. ... Atlas of the Stars . ...