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Jupiter-Sized Alien Planet Is Darkest Ever (Barely) Seen
thebchuckster writes "The darkest alien world ever spotted by astronomers has been discovered in the outskirts of our galaxy. 'It's darker than the blackest lump of coal, than dark acrylic paint you might paint with. It's bizarre how this huge planet became so absorbent of all the light that hits it,' David Kipping, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics."
But in that case it would encapsulate the star - not circle it.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
TFA is wrong, the planet was discovered from a ground-based observatory back in 2006: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609335