Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 11:57AM
Drew Wolfe

Darkest Known Exoplanet: Alien World Is Blacker Than Coal

"Astronomers have discovered the darkest known exoplanet -- a distant, Jupiter-sized gas giant known as TrES-2b. Their measurements show that TrES-2b reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it, making it blacker than coal or any planet or moon in our solar system."

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