Posted on 05/09/2020 10:40:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
We can now add atmospheric craziness to WASP-79b's already substantial exotic appeal.
The gas-giant exoplanet, which lies about 780 light-years from Earth, circles extremely close to its bright host star, completing one orbit every 3.7 Earth days. That proximity makes WASP-79b scorching hot, with an average temperature around 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,650 degrees Celsius), NASA officials said.
All that heat puffs up WASP-79b substantially, making it one of the largest alien worlds ever observed. Although WASP-79b is just 85% as massive as Jupiter, it's 1.7 times wider than our solar system's biggest planet.
Then there's the alien world's air, which researchers have now probed in considerable detail. Iron rain likely falls through WASP-79b's skies, which probably sport a very alien yellowish hue, a recent study reports. (Yellow on the dayside, that is; like other "hot Jupiters," WASP-79b is likely tidally locked to its host star, always showing it the same face.)
The scientists behind the new research studied WASP-79b's atmosphere using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Magellan Consortium's Magellan II Telescope in Chile. These observations showed no signs of "Rayleigh scattering," a phenomenon... which... explains why Earth's sky is blue... It's unclear why this phenomenon may not be occurring on WASP-79b, study team members said.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Artist's illustration of the super-hot exoplanet WASP-79b, located 780 light-years away. The planet orbits precariously close to a star that is much hotter than our sun. The planet is larger than Jupiter, and its very deep, hazy atmosphere sizzles at 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit -- the temperature of molten glass. [(Image: © NASA, ESA and L. Hustak (STScI)]
In before the "we can never get there" eeyores arrive and troll.
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Oh, we CAN get you there. You just may not be alive when you arrive. However, with your attitude, no one really cares. lol. Want to sign up?
“We can now add atmospheric craziness to WASP-79b’s already substantial exotic appeal.”
The home world of the Murder Wasps.
Tell Fleet to glass that rock.
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This information is priceless!
Tell Fleet to glass that rock.
lol
Oh no you don't, I'm not fallin' for that again. It took me 2000 years to get back last time, and four tries to get back in the same decade I'd left.
I think we should send a ship full of Left wingers and lawyers to this planet to save it from man made global warming ASAP!
Man those aliens sure pass a lot of gas don’t they?
We might, too, if it weren’t for all our water.
Bet they don’t have the virus though.
The entire focus of space exploration needs to be on finding water planets that rotten people haven’t screwed up.
All they eat the whole durn day is beans.
An entire star system called "WASP" probably is a good place to start. /rimshot
Are there water planets there?
Can’t beat those electrical wire special effects
Planet Gore home of the pig man
Franz Kafka meets Adam Schiff.
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![Artist's illustration of the super-hot exoplanet WASP-79b, located 780 light-years away. The planet orbits precariously close to a star that is much hotter than our sun. The planet is larger than Jupiter, and its very deep, hazy atmosphere sizzles at 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit -- the temperature of molten glass. [(Image: © NASA, ESA and L. Hustak (STScI)]](http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7beGpJ48WtHHQhjVXD2hGb-600-80.jpg)