Where it rains glass - Hubble finds a bizarre blue exoplanet

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The Watchers, 7/12/13, Adonai

Astronomers at NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have, for the first time, identified a true color of planed out of our Solar System. The planet is 63 light-years away and is boringly named HD 189733b but it is rather interesting, bizarre and exotic. It is also the closest exoplanet that can be seen crossing the face of its star.  

It has been intensively studied by Hubble and other telescopes, and its atmosphere has been found to be dramatically changeable and exotic, with hazes and violent flares.

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