Thursday, May 10, 2007

Hottest planet

Sizzling Planet Makes Some Stars Look Cool (SPACE.com)

An artist's rendition of HD 149026b. It's dense, gassy and a bit of oddball, but a planet orbiting a star in the constellation Hercules may be the hottest known yet, scientists said on Wednesday. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout/Reuters)SPACE.com - The hottest planet ever discovered is charcoal black and makes even some stars seem cool. Scientists think the exoplanet absorbs nearly all the starlight that reaches its surface and then reradiates it back out into space as heat.


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