Explanation:
On the distant planet HD 80606b, summers might be dangerous.
Hypothetic life forms floating in
HD 080606b's
atmosphere or lurking on one of its (presently hypothetical) moons
might fear the 1,500
Kelvin
summer heat, which is hot enough not only to
meltlead but also
nickel.
Although
summers
are defined for Earth
by the daily amount of sunlight,
summers on HD 80606b are more greatly influenced by how
close the planet gets to its parent star.
HD 80606b, about 200
light years distant, has the most
elliptical orbit of any planet yet discovered.
In comparison to the Solar System, the distance to its parent star
would range from outside the orbit of
Venus to well inside the orbit of
Mercury.
In this sequence, the night side of
HD 80606b
is computer simulated as it might glow in
infrared light in nearly daily intervals as it passed the closest
point in its 111-day orbit around its parent star.
The simulation is based on
infrared data taken
in late 2007 by the
Spitzer
Space Telescope.
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Although summers are defined for Earth
by the daily amount of sunlight,
summers on HD 80606b are more greatly influenced by how
close the planet gets to its parent star.
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