Discovering planets hotter than 2,000 degrees Celsius

Scientists on May 9 said they have discovered an outer planet. The solar system is about the same size as Saturn, with temperatures of more than 2,000 degrees Celsius, the hottest planet ever.

This finding is based on images and data provided by the Spitzer telescope of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA). Accordingly, the temperature of this planet - named HD 149026b - is 2,040 degrees Celsius, which is equivalent to the temperature on the surface of giant red stars and is about ½ of the surface temperature of the sun.

"The temperature on this planet is much higher than the temperature of the planets we used to know," Drake Deming, of NASA's Goddard Flight Center in Greenbelt, coauthored the findings.

According to scientists, HD 149026b is a dark planet, meaning that it absorbs most of the light from the stars approaching it.

HD 149026b orbits a star orbit in the constellation Hercules, 279 light-years from Earth. Scientists believe that detecting the different characteristics of planets outside the solar system will help to improve the understanding of planets.

(Photo: NASA)

WALL VY