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Hazy red sunset on HD 189733b

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Date: 06/23/08

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189733b hazy hd on red sunset

This is an artist’s impression of the extrasolar planet HD 189733b seen here with its parent star looming behind. The planet is slightly larger than our own Solar System’s Jupiter. Its atmosphere is a scorching eight hundred degrees Celsius. Astronomers have found that the sunset on HD 189733b would look similar to a hazy red sunset on Earth.