Hubble reveals planet's true blue color

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    Call it the deep blue dot. For the first time, scientists have seen the visible color of a distant alien world. The exoplanet ? called HD 189733b ? is 63 light-years from Earth and a "deep cobalt blue," with raging storms of glass rain and super-fast winds, scientists say.

The alien planet's blue color was pinned down using observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. Although the planet might be the same color as Earth from space, scientists think that HD 189733b is a "hot Jupiter" ? a gas giant planet that orbits very close to its star. It takes 2.2 Earth days for the planet to travel fully around its sun.

"This planet has been studied well in the past, both by ourselves and other teams," said Fr?d?ric Pont of the University of Exeter, U.K., leader of the Hubble observing program in a statement. "But measuring its color is a real first ? we can actually imagine what this planet would look like if we were able to look at it directly."

The exoplanet's weather is less than ideal. Its atmosphere is more than 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius) and the planet rains glass sideways in 4,350 mile per hour (7,000 km/h) winds, according to Hubble officials.

 

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"The exoplanet's weather is less than ideal. Its atmosphere is more than 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius) and the planet rains glass sideways in 4,350 mile per hour (7,000 km/h) winds, according to Hubble officials."

 

So it won't be a vacation resort, I guess.

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So, home of Hooloovoo, the super-intelligent shade of color blue?

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"The exoplanet's weather is less than ideal. Its atmosphere is more than 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius) and the planet rains glass sideways in 4,350 mile per hour (7,000 km/h) winds, according to Hubble officials."

 

So it won't be a vacation resort, I guess.

 

Depends, not everyone on the world today go on vacation to relax, a lot go to explore, experience an do extreme sports. what's more extreme sport that traveling to a planet that will kill you without a full body newton suit ;)

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I'm a little doubtful of that estimated high temperature.