Curious ExoPlanet Hot Spot

[AdzeHD]

is this seananners ??

[massivecomplexity]

i think this is because it's going like 20,000 kilometers per second.

[TheAnubisDrake]

I would guess that this is due to windspeeds on a mach scale.

[ianman6]

@TheAnubisDrake The wind coming from...where?

[ianman6]

@ianman6 Also, notice the hotspot is actually behind the planet in terms of its direction of movement. This is indeed strange.

[TheAnubisDrake]

@ianman6 Rotation of the planet, movement of air currents due to temperature differential. Exactly the same way wind is made here on earth.

[ianman6]

@TheAnubisDrake No, I mean how would you a) get wind speeds at Mach levels and b) why would this explain the location of the hotspot?

[TheAnubisDrake]

@ianman6 A) We have evidence of wind speeds at mach here in our own solar system. Look to the gas giants here. Several of their storms have had recorded speeds into the hundreds of miles an hour.

B) A hot spot moving at hundreds of miles an hour would likely not have time to dissipate it's heat before coming around to the other side of the planet. At high enough speeds the spot could travel from one side of the planet to the other in only hours.

[ianman6]

@TheAnubisDrake Never thought of it that way. So, why would the hotspot be fixated in that area? Perhaps the magnetosphere has one of it's poles in that location, and so solar wind concentrates there?

[TheAnubisDrake]

@ianman6 It's possible. The video didn't go into any detail about the magnetic properties of the world in question. Then again it could just be a convergence of currents,spinning gyre, like we have here in the center of our oceans.

[Mikdeelo]

Fascinating vid, but the sound was near my lower hearing threshhold and then the commercial blew my eardrums clear to epsilon andromeda B. MUST YOU REALLY DO THIS KIND OF CRAP? If I see one more vid with this kind of advertising gimick, I will unsubscibe from SpaceRip.

[mcplanetearth]

watch?v=b6tZLkIRpJU Watch this vid for some awesome renditions of tidally locked worlds. Thanx Be sure to watch in 720p

[DougieBarclay]

Easy, other bodies close to this exoplanet tugging on it causing friction from within.

[ianman6]

@DougieBarclay Hmm, that's interesting. I didn't think of that. Then again, I'm not an astrophysicist. Is this the going theory right now?

[albonor]

I love astronomy, so please if you could make your videos a little bit longer then 40 seconds!

Great work!

[hoon27381]

I need sone more

[Andy32268]

EPSILON FTW! YAY RVB!

[andres5501]

what happened to the 20 minute videos?

[TheCrazyAJShow]

@ivanxdxd2008 2 camels In a tiny car

[TheCrazyAJShow]

@ivanxdxd2008 2 camels in a tiny car bieotch!

[ivanxdxd2008]

@TheCrazyAJShow and that means nothing. EVERYTHING you can say about it is totally invalid and has no meaning

[BifordusMaximus]

@ivanxdxd2008 First off I would like to say that my reply IS invalid. With that I would like to say your comment makes sense.

[Blueknightex]

So basically the planet is rotating as well? So its not really tidally locked to its star ( as in facing the same side all the time).

[nihtwael]

@Blueknightex It has to rotate to be tidally locked. Its rotation period is the same as its orbital period--just like our moon. If it didn't rotate at all, all of its surface would face the star over the course of the orbital period.

[jnthnbush]

maybe wind or its rotating slowly

[szasz85b]

probably winds

[BedroomBassist]

Tell us more!

[noregrets92]

@MarkGronan1988

too right. if you'll excuse me there's a witch that needs burning...

[preachingsin]

@noregrets92 Actually we are the centre of the universe! It's not that much to brag about as so can be everywhere else, relativity quirk.

[noregrets92]

@preachingsin

we're all pen dots on an expanding balloon... in a multi-dimensional sort of way.

[Eldeecue]

@greedyfoot

Exactly my first reaction....I mean look at Neptune...

[keyb0ard94]

its like gliese 581 g

[theones77]

so its like earth and the moon?

[behnamasid]

same reason goes for why Venus is hotter than Mercury,

[MaDrung]

@behnamasid you've completly lost the point of the video...

[Groundonrage]

another video too short :/

[th3dig1tal0n3]

Atmospheric super rotation ??

[rollhard86]

@th3dig1tal0n3

its a gas planet so rotation seems right

[th3dig1tal0n3]

@rollhard86 I was actually thinking of atmosphere spinning faster than the planet beneath it while core stays tidally locked to the sun.

[yeye11117]

@SquareEyeD85 lol nice comment

[BrodyLuv2]

Maybe its' just due to localised gravitational fluctuations caused by the immense pull it must feel in its' 4 1/2 day orbit.

[OMGitsedward]

maybe the planet has a core?

[SuperChase101]

cool

[Darkwintre]

So it has a molten core which retains the heat and as it orbits that same spot where the crust is weakest combined with what heat dervied from its star and its core renders that part the hottest point even though its not the direct centre of the part exposed to its star?

Well thats a guess anyway

[MathScienceNerd]

@Darkwintre good theory--two problems with it though. gas giants don't have a crust, and their cores are either liquidy forms of the gas that makes up them or metallized through pressure. extremely rare for a gas giant to have any molten material.

[mcplanetearth]

seriously, the same side facing the heat , being it's gaseous maybe thats the hotter gas migrating to the cool side in the upper atmosphere .. like maybe the hotter it gets the faster it migrates to the coolerside .. I dunno just speculating

[mcplanetearth]

This is all a deception the earth is the center of the universe and the stars rotate around us!

[noregrets92]

@mcplanetearth

i know right? all this scientific evidence is obviously the devils work. foolish scientists and their in-depth studies. to think that we aren't the centre of the universe is just ridiculous!

[22IceEye]

umm sort of random

[retrogamer500]

Probably a complex weather system which transfers the heat in that direction to the dark side of the planet.

[AdolphX]

its so weird....I would like to know why is happening that, although the super sonic wind theory sounds good to me

Imagine it was day on one side and night on the other side of the globe all the fucking year =D how awesome is that?!

[Zanmatt2g]

@AdolphX

No, it would be too hot, summer all the time.

Abd would you like to live on the other side, dark all the time?

[AdolphX]

@Zanmatt2g nah I like the day, I dont like night that much ._.

[Zanmatt2g]

@AdolphX

you'd probably get sick of it, having the sun glaring down on you day in, day out.

[noregrets92]

@AdolphX

you'd be cooked alive, extra crispy!

[Mat397]

@AdolphX lolllll, one for lazy ass americans and the other for rushing city people that never sleeps ^^

[DragonCuber]

@lindsaymobil22 Read the description (:

[enforce007]

@PivotDemon548

damn right...!

[Bjarki2330]

Well, that means it's really, really cold on the other side. :S

[yeye11117]

*facepalm* theres no fucking aliens get it in your skull!

[TokeBiG]

@yeye11117 Ya there is aliens but this video has nothing to do with that. You have no reason to be on this page were actually trying to learn something jackass.

[yeye11117]

@TokeBiG ok first of all wasent even talking to you so your the jackass geting in my conversations

[derbigpr500]

@yeye11117 *facepalm* Theres also no brain in your skull.

[yeye11117]

@derbigpr500 you dont even know who im refering to so shhh

[darren882211]

good video 

[N1ntenOwned]

Alien colony? Hmmm?

[shamthemanSMBMG]

More about this wierd anomaly

[CyberNeticRodent]

@shamthemanSMBMG

WIND.....

[mrtrivates]

@shamthemanSMBMG I hypothesize that it might have something to do with active winds.the heated air is trying to move to the darkside of the planet where pressures are lower. but that means that the cold air has to "move over" - there must be some sort of "give". so that hotspot is likely the result of a hot-air to cold-air to hot-air cycle.

[VWLPT]

@mrtrivates

Maybe it's an active super volcano...

[9noitulover]

hmm, thats a rather peculiar place for the hot spot to be

[SimplySchaun]

huh?

[samanatorrules]

what a waste of time.....

[MoCityDon1508]

cool

[JustB3NJI]

That needed more explanation - of what was observed and why it is of intrest/relevance/significance for a dunce like me!

[Tryangetbetter]

What happened to the longer, more informative videos? I haven't seen a 10-20 minute one by SpaceRip in a while.. I love all your videos but the main reason I subscribed was for the 10+ minute ones.

Though, they're all still very interesting, keep up the good work!

[easuter]

Ah come one guys, a 40 second clip?! :(

[aylera]

@Aladoniss Well i heard that the Gliese planet in the goldilox zone may not even exist, since astronomers are not able to confirm its location.

[pedroetcr]

I love SpaceRip videos, but sometimes they r sooo short.

[19Tranc3r92]

@pedroetcr

It's enough to get the message across and to get you thinking.

[pedroetcr]

@SeAnMoLo According to the video and the description, the hot spot is not the part of the planet that is closest to the star, in this system it seems to be kinda far from it, going to one side of the planet. According to the description, they have a few theories, but they dont know for sure why this happens. Really interesting.

[culwin]

Kanye West hangs out there with Paris Hilton

[S4MBONE]

@culwin Probably, seeing as they act like heat-exhausted retards.

[CharlieWhitesWig]

@PivotDemon548 LOL!

[deedubya286]

I'm curious to know how scientists can determine the rotational period of an extrasolar planet. Don't you have to be able to directly image something to do that or is there another way?

[AlanKey86]

@deedubya286 This is a very good question. I would also be interested to find out... to Google, I go.

[carterross]

@deedubya286

I guess they mesure the changes in the star's bright. whenever the planet cross the path between us and it's star, scientists may be able to determinat the planets rotational period (in this case, we can "see" Andromedae b's period... 4 days)

[deedubya286]

@carterross That would give you the planet's orbital period around its star but wouldn't tell you anything about how fast it is rotating on its axis. It's going to occlude the same amount of light regardless of how fast it's spinning.

[Rahavin1]

@deedubya286 perhaps they can make inference when considering size and proximity to its star. there are tidally locked planets in our system... maybe they all work of a similar equation?

Im too tired to do this right now.... ugh.

[mvszao]

@deedubya286 you don't see the molecules in your hot water vibrating, but you can measure the temperature indirectly. This is the same thing, you can't see, but you can measure indirectly (they use computer models a lot too)

[battl34life]

sweet