Sentences with phrase «nightside temperature»
The extreme difference between day - and nightside temperatures suggests 55 Cancri has no appreciable atmosphere, because winds should redistribute heat between the two hemispheres.
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The team's measurements suggest the planet's nightside would actually exhibit a ruddy glow because its temperature appears to be in excess of 1,000 degrees Celsius — as hot as a blast furnace.
That orientation pushes temperatures to about 1,900 ° Celsius on the planet's dayside compared with about 900 ° C on the nightside.
An exoplanet discovered orbiting a massive, scorching star 650 light years away is so hot that even its nightside hits temperatures higher than some stars
Because planet b is tidally locked and the outer atmosphere is so efficient at re-radiating heat, its «nightside» stays dark and cold (top), unlike bands of even temperature on a Jupiter - like planet (shown below — more).