OT: Truth is stranger than science fiction- planet rains glass amid 4500 mph winds
Slow summer and this stuff is pretty cool. Granted, NASA can only hypothesize what is actually going on at the surface of this planet based on what they are finding via Hubble, but the concept is pretty crazy. Reading the ennui tournament and reliving those moments made me feel like I was living in glass blowing sideways so I can relate to this.
Highlights include the following
"a gas giant with a daytime temperature of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit where it possibly rains liquid glass sideways amid 4,500 mph winds"
"blue color comes not from the reflection of an ocean, but rather a hazy, blow-torched atmosphere containing high clouds laced with silicate particles... condensing in the heat could form very small drops of glass that scatter blue light more than red light."
"the planet is only 2.9 million miles from its parent star... by contrast, Mercury, the closest planet in our solar system to the sun, is 29 million miles away from the sun... day side and night side temperatures differ by about 500 degrees Fahrenheit, which should cause fierce winds to roar from the day side to the night side"
Great. Fred now has an ample way to overindulge Fournette's skillset:
"He's harder to defend against than a gas giant with a daytime temperature of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit where it possibly rains liquid glass sideways amid 4,500 mph winds."
"His talents shine brighter than a planet that is only 2.9 million miles from its parent star... by contrast, Mercury, the closest planet in our solar system to the sun, is 29 million miles away from the sun..."
But it would have been better if you'd just left it at 11 words.
I love watching How the Universe Works and Through the Wormhole during the summer to get me through until football season!
Newly discovered planet ripe for Mork to recruit, but alas, it's already determined to be Blue. New UM pipeline!
I can't help but think this somehow validates "Sharknado".
The Space.com article provides a little more technical detail here (HERE).
There's also an image gallery with some renderings, but also it mentions that the Spitzer Telescope helped produce one of the first temperature maps of an exoplanet - this planet in the article actually. They even produced a handy page with the basic data (including the temperature map):
I'm sending you to deliver one million bottles of Windex to planet HD 189733b!
Would upvote more if I could. Love Futurama, such an underrated but mindless show.
Especially if this guy commands it
Does said planet have a cure for terminal Boneitis?
So what you're saying is we've found a new home once Earth dies?
Could have just asked Saban about where he grew up.
I thought that was Hell.
That was kind of the whole joke.
While I love this kind of thread (kinda a science nerd), I can't wait until the blog is talking about Michigan sports once again. Only 47 days...
Like the space alcohol cloud that spans approximately 288 billion miles.
Mmmm, beer...
They had the number of billions of miles pinned down precicely til some bozo from one solar system over bet his college buddies he could drink all the alcohol in the neighbors booze cloud. Guy ruined everything.
And NASA, I am calling Bullshit.
Spartan stadium except it's green in color and rains swirling paper and plastic in 45 mph winds.
I love reading about discoveries in space, especially planets. I wonder if they will ever find an Earth-like planet in my lifetime (I am 31).
Always a great conversation starter!
I wonder if there are any 2 star recruits living there for Dantonio to recruit.
This story is nothing. We've got friggin tornadoes dropping sharks on people outside.
4500 mile per hour winds?
Flying glass?
Sharknados?
All child's play my friends. I live in Cleveland....we'd kill for 4500 MPH winds pushing glass and angry sharks just to brighten things up a bit.
2 biggest fears are tornadoes and sharks. It was with reluctant amusement that I told him of that movie. My wife was not amused or pleased.
The only weather outside of our own planet that my wife cares about is on Neptune and Uranus (hehehe), because there, it rains diamonds.
but have you seen HD 189733b's pad level? And don't even get me started on HD 189733b's size. Definitely needs improvement there
mythbusters to show me what kind of damage molten glass at 4500 MPH can do
Whatever happened to the days when there were 9 planets, 1 moon, 1 sun. That was it. I may even still have the model in my attic. Science always tryna stir shit up!