TrES-2b: a dark exoplanet, darker than the blackest coal

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Nickname: Erebus.

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The distant exoplanet TrES-2b, shown here in an artist's conception, is darker than the blackest coal. This Jupiter-sized world reflects less than one percent of the light that falls on it, making it blacker than any planet or moon in our solar system. Astronomers aren't sure what vapors in the planet's superheated atmosphere cloak it so effectively.






Why is this planet so dark?





Planet TrES-2b reflects back less than one percent of the light it receives, making it darker than any known planet or moon, darker even than coal. Jupiter-sized TrES-2b orbits extremely close to a sun-like star 750 light years away, and was discovered producing slight eclipses in 2006 using the modest 10-cm telescopes of the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES). The alien world's strange darkness, however, was only uncovered recently by observations indicating its slight reflective glow by the Sun-orbiting Kepler satellite. An artist's drawing of planet is shown above, complete with unsubstantiated speculation on possible moons. Reasons for TrES-2b's darkness remain unknown and are an active topic of research.


Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA), TrES, Kepler, NASA.






Original article ---->  Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

p/s: Sebenarnya berita tentang planet paling gelap ni dah release sejak 11 Ogos 2011.  
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