It may be hard to imagine a planet blacker than coal, but astronomers say they'v...

It may be hard to imagine a planet blacker than coal, but astronomers say they've found one—and it reflects almost no light.


Darkest Planet Found -- National Geographic
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Orbiting only about three million miles out from its star, the Jupiter-size gas giant planet, dubbed TrES-2b, is heated to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (980 degrees Celsius). Yet the apparently inky world appears to reflect almost none of the starlight that shines on it, according to a new study.

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