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NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet
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NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/july/nasa...eHMtm2wUsZ

Quote:Astronomers making visible-light observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual color of a planet orbiting another star 63 light-years away.

The planet is HD 189733b, one of the closest exoplanets that can be seen crossing the face of its star.

Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph measured changes in the color of light from the planet before, during and after a pass behind its star. There was a small drop in light and a slight change in the color of the light. "We saw the light becoming less bright in the blue but not in the green or red. Light was missing in the blue but not in the red when it was hidden," said research team member Frederic Pont of the University of Exeter in South West England. "This means that the object that disappeared was blue."
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RE: NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet
I can hear the idiots now.

"God just made it seem blue to fool you and test your faith."
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RE: NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet
Too bad the blue planet is so hot the blue comes from rock vapor, rather than water vapor.

(July 13, 2013 at 6:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I can hear the idiots now.

"God just made it seem blue to fool you and test your faith."


Yeah, god ensured there is really no god so he can test your faith
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