{"id":58411,"date":"2017-07-10T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=58411"},"modified":"2017-06-19T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T15:41:49","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-what-planet-is-too-hot-to-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2017\/uncommon-knowledge-what-planet-is-too-hot-to-handle\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: What Planet Is Too Hot to Handle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/personalized-book-about-space?source=blog_uk071017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-58417 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/45961_bookspace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a>Just in time for summer, the search for exoplanets\u2014worlds beyond our solar system\u2014is heating up. Literally. Astronomers have discovered a planet that\u2019s beyond blistering. It\u2019s almost as hot as the surface of our sun and even hotter than many other stars. More than twice the size of Jupiter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=6865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gas giant KELT-9b<\/a> boasts a daytime temperature of 4,300 \u00b0C. For comparison\u2019s sake, the hottest planet in our solar system\u2014Venus\u2014averages only 460 \u00b0C and the hottest spot on earth is Death Valley at a pitiful 58 \u00b0C. \u201cYou call that <em>hot?<\/em>\u201d say imagined retirees living on KELT-9b.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->KELT-9b\u2019s record-vaporizing temperatures are due to its proximity to its white-hot home star. And although it\u2019s hotter than many cooler stars, the planet doesn\u2019t burn with nuclear fusion so it\u2019s still planet-like. KELT-9b is so hot that it\u2019s thought to be a molecule-free zone; everything is in the form of atoms because it\u2019s just too hot for them to get together to do the molecule thing. There is, however, an intoxicating molecular element to this tale: KELT-9b discoverer Scott Gaudi bet skeptical colleagues that the weird world was indeed a planet, and when the data proved him right, he won the stakes\u2014a bottle of single malt Scotch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/personalized-book-about-space?source=blog_uk071017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personalized Book About Space<\/a> | $35<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for summer, the search for exoplanets\u2014worlds beyond our solar system\u2014is heating up. Literally. Astronomers have discovered&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":58417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[1511,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58411"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58611,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58411\/revisions\/58611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}