night side

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Hemispheric vortical storms, glowing with their intrinsic black-body emission emerge on the night side of an intensely irradiated Jovian-mass extrasolar planet on a short-period orbit.

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Erik Charlton says:

What is this????????
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

oklo says:

It's our (with "our" being UCSC grad student Jonathan Langton and myself) current best guess as to what the night side of the newly discovered transiting planet HAT-P-2b looks like. The image is produced from a global hydrodynamical simulation. The planet has an orbital period of only 5.66 days, and is thus hot enough so that we're seeing it it glow with its own intrinsic blackbody radiation. I ran the output from the hydro calculation through Photoshop "movie prime" lens simulator to give the slight lens flare.

Some animations are of this (and similar planets) are available at my weblog.

One of my goals over the next several years is to bring the art of extrasolar planet visualization up to the level where its commercially viable for use in films. We understand the physics of these objects well enough to know that they should be absolutely stunning when we render their appearances correctly.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

dodorex61 says:

Oh...that's realy GREAT shot! Perfect!!!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

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