A look at Google Ngrams does support your statement that "emanating from" is more common; apparently overwhelmingly so: A search of Google Books turns up some other examples of this use of "emitting from": Thus, the LED schematic symbol has light emitting from, or coming out of, the diode. That's why it's called a light-emitting diode. More @Wikipedia
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