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Originally Posted by Kullat Nunu
A new transiting planet: - HAT-7b: An extremely hot massive planet transiting a bright star in the Kepler field.
The abstract says that the planet's dayside temperature should be about 2700 K. That is hot. |
I'm curious, how would such a planet appear?Would it be glowing orange hot even at the nightside with winds of speeds in magnitude of 10 000 km/s?
That's truly a hell planet.Venus is a nice good cool habitable inviting planet compared to this.
One thing that I don't understand is that how that planet can even exist?It is only about 1.776 x as massive as Jupiter so I would expect that the planet's gas envelope would evaporate early in it's life, leaving a*lava ball superterrestrial.Was there any sign of atmospheric evaporation detected.