573 New planets discovered, Any aliens?

Exoplanets are astronomers and other scientists newest toy. These planets exist beyond our galaxy and at last count scientists believe that have found 573 of them.



The one type of exoplanets that have scientists scratching their heads extra hard are ones termed as dark planets and thanks to the Kepler spacecraft scientists have a new planet to puzzle over. Called TrES-2b, with the size of Jupiter some 750 light-years away, it is considered to be the darkest known planet.



It is so black that it is even darker than coal and is less reflective than black acrylic paint; and yet the planet isn't completely black



 It emits an extremely faint red glow, like that of a hot ember. And it turns out that heat is the main culprit behind this darkest of dark planets. TrES-2b orbits its star at a distance of just 3 million miles (by comparison, we're about 93 million miles from our sun) still its so hot down here.



Then just imagine what its like over there with surface temperatures on TrES-2b at more than 1,800 degrees, (that's not boiling point - its disintegrating point lol) at which you must be a water proof alien to survive that heat! hehehe NO ALIENS people!

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