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NASA's Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet (scienmag.com)
schwit1 writes: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a planet outside our solar system that looks as black as fresh asphalt because it eats light rather than reflecting it back into space. This light-eating prowess is due to the planet's unique capability to trap at least 94 percent of the visible starlight falling into its atmosphere. The oddball exoplanet, called WASP-12b, is one of a class of so-called "hot Jupiters," gigantic, gaseous planets that orbit very close to their host star and are heated to extreme temperatures. The planet's atmosphere is so hot that most molecules are unable to survive on the blistering day side of the planet, where the temperature is 4,600 degrees Fahrenheit. Therefore, clouds probably cannot form to reflect light back into space. Instead, incoming light penetrates deep into the planet's atmosphere where it is absorbed by hydrogen atoms and converted to heat energy. "We did not expect to find such a dark exoplanet," said Taylor Bell of McGill University and the Institute for Research on Exoplanets in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, lead researcher of the Hubble study. "Most hot Jupiters reflect about 40 percent of starlight."
Seriously?
https://www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/functions/standards/isu.html
At roughly 2300 Kelvin the planet should emit a dim glow, centered somewhere in the (near) infrared?
What's that in proper units?
Fourteen parsecs.
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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pitch_black/
About 5000 degrees rankine or 750 degrees newton.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
4600ÂF = 2540ÂC
nonsense, they found Disaster Area's spaceship!
"It was a ship of classic, simple design, like a flattened salmon, twenty yards long, very clean, very sleek. There was just one remarkable thing about it.
"It's so ... black!" said Ford Prefect, "you can hardly make out its shape ... light just seems to fall into it!"
Zaphod said nothing. He had simply fallen in love.
The blackness of it was so extreme that it was almost impossible to tell how close you were standing to it."
This is NASA, come on, a science institution. Using Fahrenheit?
They should use Kelvin!
This is dumbing down science just so that Trump understands it!
Atari rules... ermm... ruled.
The planet is indeed emitting infrared light. Not all light is visible.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
This is dumbing down science just so that Trump understands it!
Given that he's also the one who is talking about budgets and cuts,
I think you understood wyh the EXTREME vulgarisation of the NASA.
(And with some luck, he might also confuse them with NSA and shower them with money. who knows ?...)
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Now we know where they all went! I can't wait to drive on it!
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I don't understand sarcasm.
I like my dinosaurs feathery, and my pterosaurs hairy (or is it pycnofibery?)
I made it in 13. But I met a guy once who claimed to make it in 12. He was a bit of a braggart though, not sure if I trust him.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
This light-eating prowess is due to the planet's unique capability to trap at least 94 percent of the visible starlight falling into its atmosphere.
"This light-eating prowess is due to the planet's unique capability to eat light."
Thank you for that useful information... /grumpyoldman
Can't be, Giedi Prime orbits 36 Ophiuchi.
Priest: Imagine for a moment that this thing is not anything that can be identified because it prefers not to be. Wherever there is life, it brings death, because it is evil, absolute evil.
President: One more reason to shoot first.
Priest: Evil begets evil, Mr. President. Shooting will only make it stronger.
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"‘It’s the wild colour scheme that freaks me out,’ said Zaphod, whose love affair with the ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight. 'Every time you try and operate these weird black controls that are labeled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up in black to let you know you’ve done it.’"
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a planet outside our solar system that looks as black as fresh asphalt because it eats light rather than reflecting it back into space.
Or, to put it another, slightly less flowery way, because it's black.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I hear he tends to shoot from the hip so take what he says with a grain of salt...
Sounds an awful lot like this triple-max slam in the outer ring ... Crematoria, I think it's called. I would suggest that you keep an eye out for a bald guy if you ever visit, but by the time you realize he's there, it's too late.
[as the Federation ships prepare to fire on the dark planet]
Scientist's Aide: Its structure has just solidified on the surface.
Head Scientist: I think it's anticipating the attack. Anticipation denotes intelligence.
Priest Vito Cornelius: The most terrible intelligence imaginable, Mr. President.
As I stated above: Can't be, Giedi Prime orbits 36 Ophiuchi.
I hear he tends to shoot from the hip so take what he says with a grain of salt...
Shoots first ands asks quest^H^H^H^H^H for payment all in advance.