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discovery of a new planet like Earth

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Enables astronomers for the first time to determine the actual color of a planet outside our solar system, by the Space Telescope «Hubble», a planet with a blue color is like the color of the earth

But the similarities between the two planets stand at this point, it seems, this planet which is located about 63 light-years from Earth «600 billion kilometers» in the constellation of the fox, which was launched by the scientists name «H d 189 733 B», is a gaseous planet floating in orbit close to its sun, and does not constitute in any way constitute a suitable environment for life and evolution. 

The rising temperature of the planet to a thousand degrees Celsius, and winds blowing on the surface speeds up to seven thousand miles per hour, and it came «Rain of Glass», recounted came in a statement to the European Space Agency. 

Several studies have been conducted on this planet through a telescope «Hubble» and other telescopes, but the first time ever that a team of researchers at the University of Exeter, led by British Frederic Pont determine the color of a planet outside our solar system. 

In order to determine the color of the planet, scientists deliberately to measure reflected light from the surface, a property called «Alipido». 

A statement by the European Space Agency to measure the color of the planet «is the first of its kind», he added: «We can imagine the shape of the planet if we look at it directly». 
But the heavenly blue of the planet is not the result of a reflection of the oceans and seas, as is the case in the planet, but also for a turbulent atmosphere and hazy, a key author in the form of hydrogen gas, and bearing silicate particles that radiate in blue. 
Frederic Pont says: «difficult to pinpoint the factor that causes the color in the atmosphere of any planet, even in relation to the planets of our solar system», he added: «This new surveillance operations, a step in this area». 

Classified as a planet «H d 189 733 B» in the category of planets «Buyer warm» a designation launches on gas giant planets that swim in an orbit close to its sun, this planet, for example, is the star, a distance equal to one to 30 from a distance of Earth from the sun, that is the nearest near to its sun than Mercury to our sun 10 times. 
This planet is a course on its sun in 53 hours, which has a mass equivalent to 1.1 of the mass of Jupiter. 

Since the nineties 20th, astronomers monitor 900 a planet outside our solar system, orbiting its sun, and recent studies have estimated that the number of these planets in the universe to billions.


Photos of the planets from NASA

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