Blue Planet Find

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."

Earlier observations have reported evidence for scattering of blue light on the planet. The latest Hubble observation confirms the evidence.

If seen directly, this planet would look like a deep blue dot, reminiscent of Earth's color as seen from space. That is where the comparison ends.

On this turbulent alien world, the daytime temperature is nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and it possibly rains glass -- sideways -- in howling, 4,500-mph winds. The cobalt blue color comes not from the reflection of a tropical ocean as it does on Earth, but rather a hazy, blow-torched atmosphere containing high clouds laced with silicate particles. Silicates condensing in the heat could form very small drops of glass that scatter blue light more than red light.

Hubble and other observatories have made intensive studies of HD 189733b and found its atmosphere to be changeable and exotic.

HD 189733b is among a bizarre class of planets called hot Jupiters, which orbit precariously close to their parent stars. The observations yield new insights into the chemical composition and cloud structure of the entire class.

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"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott

"The bad news is that time flies The good news is you're the pilot.." - Michael Althsuler

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page." - St. Augustine

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." ~ John Steinbeck

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"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant feelings in the world." ~ Freya Stark

"All journeys have secret of which the traveler is aware destinations." ~ Martin Buber

"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure." ~ Alfred North Whitehead

"Tourists do not know where they've been, travelers do not know where to go." ~ Paul Theroux

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is adventure, no trouble." ~ James Broughton

"If you come to a fork in the road, take it." ~ Yogi Berra

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"Travel makes a modest, you see what a small place you occupy in the world." ~ Gustave Flaubert

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." ~ Marcel Proust

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"The bold adventurer succeeds the best." ~ Ovid

"Courage is the ability to perform effectively even when scared half to death." ~ Omar Bradley

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to him." ~ George C. Scott

Unexpected adventure makes for a better story. - Lynn O'Rourke Hayes

"Who dares nothing, need to wait for anything." ~ Johann Friedrich von Schiller

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"Try again fail again Fail better..." - Samuel Beckett

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, so try the impossible, and ensure that, generation after generation." - Pearl S. Buck

"Live with courage." Author Unknown

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"No dreamer is ever too small;. No dream is ever too big" - Author Unknown

"When you're everywhere, are nothing / When you are somewhere, you are everywhere." -Rumi

"Adventure is worthwhile." Amelia Earhart

"Adventure is not outside man. Is within" - David Grayson

"Chance is the providence of adventurers." - Napoleon Bonaparte

'Go ahead. I am invincible! "Author Unknown

"If things seem under control, you're just not going fast enough." -Mario Andretti

"If you risk nothing gain anything". -Bear Grylls

"Read It is one of the most wonderful adventures that anyone can have.." - Alexander Lloyd

"You know you're really alive when you are living among lions." - Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

"Yes. Yes! Of course! No doubt. You can!" - Madison Ann.