“PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) — Scientists have discovered the universe’s largest known planet, a giant ball made of mostly hydrogen that circles a star 1,400 light-years away.
Scientists believe the planet is about twice the size of Jupiter, and has a temperature of 2,300-degrees.
‘There is probably not a really firm surface anywhere on the planet. You would sink into it,’ said Georgi Mandushev, a research scientist at Lowell Observatory and lead author of an article announcing the finding in the peer-reviewed Astrophysical Journal Letters.
‘It’s just letting us know that nature has some surprises for us … a much wider range of possibility than we could imagine,’ Boss said. ”
Yes, indeed. Nature has lot of surprizes for us. We just need not mess around with nature.
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This post was written by techhair on August 14, 2007
