'Giant mirror in space': Astronomers spot most reflective exoplanet
A scorching hot world where metal clouds raindrops of titanium... It is a planet astronomers say probably should not even exist, but it does and...
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A scorching hot world where metal clouds raindrops of titanium... It is a planet astronomers say probably should not even exist, but it does and...
On Monday, researchers announced the discovery of an incredibly unusual exoplanet located outside our solar system.
The scorchingly hot exoplanet appears to be wrapped in clouds of titanium and silicates which reflect 80 percent of light back into space. Researchers have said it should probably not exist.
Researchers said on Monday they have spotted a truly extreme planet beyond our solar system, a blazingly hot world a bit bigger than Neptune that orbits a sun-like star every 19 hours and appears to be wrapped in metallic clouds made of titanium and silicates that reflect most incoming light back into space. "It's a giant mirror in space," said astronomer James Jenkins of Diego Portales University and the Center for Excellence in Astrophysics and Associated Technologies (CATA) in Chile, a co-author of the research published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. It refl...
Researchers on Monday say they have spotted a planet that astronomers say probably should not even exist.