Comments on: For the First Time, Astronomers Observe the Phases of a Red-Hot Exoplanet http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/28/for-the-first-time-astronomers-observe-the-phases-of-a-red-hot-exoplanet/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: chris http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/28/for-the-first-time-astronomers-observe-the-phases-of-a-red-hot-exoplanet/#comment-8869 chris Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:42:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/28/for-the-first-time-astronomers-observe-the-phases-of-a-red-hot-exoplanet/#comment-8869 1600 light years away... 1600 light years away…

]]> By: iain's opinion http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/28/for-the-first-time-astronomers-observe-the-phases-of-a-red-hot-exoplanet/#comment-8868 iain's opinion Fri, 29 May 2009 04:13:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/28/for-the-first-time-astronomers-observe-the-phases-of-a-red-hot-exoplanet/#comment-8868 Wouldn't the lack of heat transfer suggest a lack of medium to move the heat? As in no atmosphere. Therefore taking it out of the Jupiter class and moving it into a large Mercury class.?. Wouldn’t the lack of heat transfer suggest a lack of medium to move the heat? As in no atmosphere. Therefore taking it out of the Jupiter class and moving it into a large Mercury class.?.

]]> By: Nick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/28/for-the-first-time-astronomers-observe-the-phases-of-a-red-hot-exoplanet/#comment-8867 Nick Thu, 28 May 2009 17:46:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/28/for-the-first-time-astronomers-observe-the-phases-of-a-red-hot-exoplanet/#comment-8867 Re: Torrance 2,200 degrees fahrenheit on the dark side, buddy. That is not frigid, but indeed lightless (unless you can see infrared, in which case it would be bright like a brown dwarf star). Re: Torrance

2,200 degrees fahrenheit on the dark side, buddy. That is not frigid, but indeed lightless (unless you can see infrared, in which case it would be bright like a brown dwarf star).

]]> By: Torrance http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/28/for-the-first-time-astronomers-observe-the-phases-of-a-red-hot-exoplanet/#comment-8866 Torrance Thu, 28 May 2009 16:31:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/28/for-the-first-time-astronomers-observe-the-phases-of-a-red-hot-exoplanet/#comment-8866 Wouldn't these tidally locked hot Jupiters, wouldn't they have a narrow band between the light and dark sides, a twilight area where water heat and some light could foster life ? I presume the dark side of these planets would be frigid and lightless, because the of the planets great size however, it would seem to me possible, that a narrow twightlight goldilocks zone could exist on these worlds is that not so ? Wouldn’t these tidally locked hot Jupiters, wouldn’t they have a narrow
band between the light and dark sides, a twilight area where water heat and some
light could foster life ?

I presume the dark side of these planets would be frigid and lightless, because the of
the planets great size however, it would seem to me possible, that a narrow twightlight
goldilocks zone could exist on these worlds is that not so ?

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