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Big Blue Planet...but, not Earth? What??

I had a very vivid dream, a couple years ago, about this HUGE blue planet to my left, and the sun and the moon were both in the sky at the same time directly in front of me. I was looking out my back door at the time and I looked straight ahead, and saw the sun in the background and the moon was in the sky also, and were in the Southeastern sky, and I didn't see the planet right away, but I turned to my left, which would be facing the Northeastern sky, and this blue planet covered the entire view of my left side, and this was only half of the planet. The other half was below the horizon, because it was too big for me to see all of it.  I recently read about a HUGE blue "planet-like" object which they just discovered coming from out of nowhere. When I dreamed this..I knew the planet was blue, so it couldn't have been Niburu, so I will keep a close watch on this. The article about it is here http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/11jul_cobaltblue/

Hubble Finds a Cobalt Blue Planet

July 11, 2013:  Astronomers working 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, and its color is cobalt blue. If seen directly, this planet would look like a deep blue dot, reminiscent of Earth's color as seen from space.

This artist's concept shows exoplanet HD 189733b orbiting its yellow-orange star, HD 189733. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope measured the actual visible-light color of the planet, which is deep blue. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

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.

Although the planet resembles Earth in terms of color, it is not an Earth-like world.

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.

This plot compares the colors of planets in our solar system to exoplanet HD 189733b. The exoplanet's deep blue color is produced by silicate droplets, which scatter blue light in its atmosphere. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)

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.

HD 189733b was discovered in 2005. It is only 2.9 million miles from its parent star, so close that it is gravitationally locked. One side always faces the star and the other side is always dark.

In 2007, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope measured the infrared light, or heat, from the planet, leading to one of the first temperature maps for an exoplanet. The map shows day side and night side temperatures on HD 189733b differ by about 500 degrees Fahrenheit. This should cause fierce winds to roar from the day side to the night side.

For more information about hot Jupiters and the weather they experience, check out the ScienceCast video Big Weather on Hot Jupiters

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Production editor: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science@NASA

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Astronomers working 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, and its color is cobalt blue. If seen directly, this planet would look like a deep blue dot, reminiscent of Earth's color as seen fr

Gingerbread smoothie...YUM YUM!

Alright...here is a great smoothie that's all good for you too! Can't imagine it?? Me, neither, but the "gingerbread smoothie" is a big time winner! Take two bananas and put them in the freezer, peel first, and get your blender or food processor, my blender is broken so I used my fp. Put three cups almond milk 1 TBS vanilla, and 1 TBS molasses, 1 tsp allspice, 1 tsp ground ginger, 1 tsp cinnamin, then add your semi frozen bananas. Blend well and drink! So delicious, and nutritious! ♥