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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Imaging Hot Young Jupiters

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Franck Marchis is on the team that has delivered an actual image of a young, hot world about 100 light years from Earth. We talk with him on the 20th anniversary of the first exoplanet discovery.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Want to see a hot young Jupiter? You can, this week on planetary radio.

0:07.0

Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

0:12.0

I'm at Kaplan of the

0:13.7

Planetary Society. Astronomer Frank Marchis is back this time to tell us about the

0:18.7

first actual image of a Jupiter-like world circling a distant star.

0:24.2

Bill Nye and I will compare notes on The Martian, and Bruce Betts will get all his heavenly

0:28.9

bodies in a row for this week's What's Up.

0:31.8

But we begin with senior editor Emily Loch Wallace

0:34.6

take on the latest images from New Horizons. This time it's an utterly

0:39.2

spectacular image of Pluto's companion, Sharon.

0:42.8

Emily, it appears, we have found yet another gorgeous little world.

0:46.6

Yeah, who knew Sharon was going to be so interesting?

0:49.0

I mean, I was looking forward to seeing it.

0:51.0

I knew it would be different from Pluto, but wow how

0:53.4

different it is and how different it is from anything else we've ever seen before.

0:56.4

I was just staring once again, I'm doing it again now, at this beautiful image

1:01.8

that has been returned.

1:03.0

This is such a rich surface.

1:06.0

Yes, it has so many different colors

1:08.0

and it's really not that common in the solar system

1:11.0

for there to be surfaces that are a wide variety of different

1:13.9

colors on the same surface, but here we have Sharon. It's a it's generally

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