Sci/Tech Sizzling Planet Makes Some Stars Look Cool

[The Helper]

The hottest planet ever discovered is charcoal black and makes even some stars seem cool. Scientists think the exoplanet absorbs nearly all the starlight that reaches its surface and then reradiates it back out into space as heat.

Called HD 149026b, the feverish world emits so much infrared heat that it glows slightly. "It would look like an ember in space, absorbing all incoming light but glowing a dull red," said study leader Joseph Harrington of the University of Central Florida.

Located 279 light-years away in the constellation Hercules, HD 149026b is a so-called hot Jupiter, a giant gas planet that orbits very close to its star. It is a scorching 3,700 degrees Fahrenheit (2,040 degrees Celsius), three times hotter than Mercury and hotter than the coolest stars.

Sizzling Planet Makes Some Stars Look Cool

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[johnnyfire]

Holy Crap... thats crazy... they really overdid the global warming lol

 

[seph ir oth]

You know that once mankind can travel through space with ease, we will mine the hell out of that planet:

"Until very recently, HD 149026b was also the densest planet known. It contains higher levels of heavy elements-those other than hydrogen and helium-than all of the planets in our solar system combined, and its core might have up to 90 times the mass of the Earth."

 

[XXXconanXXX]

You know that once mankind can travel through space with ease, we will mine the hell out of that planet:

"Until very recently, HD 149026b was also the densest planet known. It contains higher levels of heavy elements-those other than hydrogen and helium-than all of the planets in our solar system combined, and its core might have up to 90 times the mass of the Earth."

Hopefully, by the time we can travel through space with ease, we'll have the technology to keep instruments cool against heat like that. Currently, we can produce heat 10 times hotter than the surface of the sun here on Earth, and hopefully, we can one day protect against enormous amounts of thermal energy.

 

[Rad]

You know with that kind of power conan, something would go unstable and destroy the earth

smile about it

 

[johnnyfire]

You know with that kind of power conan, something would go unstable and destroy the earth

smile about it

Na.... we'll test it out on Mars, so that if we mess up then oops, there goes Mars... earth will still be OK 'cept maybe a few meteors

 

[Blackveiled]

To some people, not EVERYTHING is possible..but everything is possible, just needs the correct info and exact things solved.

Travelling Faster than the Speed of Light

Who the hell said this? Nobody can say that we can't go faster than it...who the hell wants to..thats the question..? xD

1 Universe

.... This is probally not true...if the universe can collapse on itself again, then its not the only one lol everything has to continue into a void or soemthing, cause SOMETHING is holding all these galaxies and crap lol

 

[johnnyfire]

Travelling Faster than the Speed of Light

Who the hell said this? Nobody can say that we can't go faster than it...who the hell wants to..thats the question..? xD

hey it would be cool and that's all the reason you need