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Jupiter-Sized Alien Planet Is Darkest Ever (Barely) Seen

Posted by timothy on from the none-more-black dept.

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."

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  1. Re:How dark? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is pitch black. Probably the home world of the grues.

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  2. Re:artificial by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    But in that case it would encapsulate the star - not circle it.

    Yeah, that's what the engineers told the management, too. But the management didn't believe it. So they built it around the planet instead.

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