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> Winds of rubies and sapphires on Exoplanet HAT-P-7b

Winds of rubies and sapphires on Exoplanet HAT-P-7b

author: Ron Miller/Novapix

reference: a-exo99-31821

Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 17 cm

First discovered in 2008, HAT-P-7b is over 1,040 light-years away from us. It is an exoplanet 40 percent larger than Jupiter and 500 times more massive than the Earth– and orbits a star 50 percent more massive, and twice as large, as the sun. Clouds on the planet could be made of corundum, the mineral which forms rubies and sapphires.

Keywords for this photo:

ASTRONOMY - ATMOSPHERE - CLOUD - CYGNUS - EXOPLANET - EXTRASOLAR PLANET - HAT-P-7b - HOT JUPITER - ILLUSTRATION - METEOROLOGY - MINERAL - MINERALOGY - PLANET - RAIN - TEMPERATURE - WIND -