Extreme Weather on HD 80606 b -- HDR rendering

This is a simulated mission to the exoplanet HD 80606 b. HD 80606 b is a giant planet with a comet-like orbit; while it spends most of its time at ~0.8 A.U., it comes within 0.03 A.U. at its closest approach. We used an atmospheric model to simulate the weather patterns during this perilous periastron passage. The planet heats up by roughly 400 degrees, generating winds of over 10,000 mph.

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Science & Technology

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• HD
• 80606
• hydrodynamics
• weather
• simulation
• atmospheric
• model

[viagraboy420]

Beetlejuice, beetlejuice, bee........

[raystargazer]

Excellent! A group of astronomersat a dozen observatories across the planet worked in tandem to monitor the latest eclipse in late September. Wiki has a great detail page. Pretty impressive that this is a planet almost 200 light years away in a different solar system and we can see it from our backyard!

[3rikonguitar]

at 0:18, this planet looks a lot like satan. dude, this could be so popular if people started saying it was a sign of the apocalypse

[dylanmatheson]

Wow