Artist’s rendering of newly discovered planet TrES-2b, a gas giant about 750 light years away that reflects less than 1% of the light it receives (compared to Earths 37%). That makes this planet blacker than coal. Scientists don’t know why, or even how, it reflects so little light, and have gone so far as to say “There’s a good chance it’s (due to) a chemical we haven’t even thought of yet.”
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