14 DAY TRIAL // With the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have managed to determine the color of a distant planet circling a star located some 63 light years away from us, in the Vulpecula constellation.
They say that, according to their observations, the planet has a deep-blue color. However, this does not necessarily mean that it hosts liquid water.
On the contrary, this distant world is basically a ginormous ball of gas. From this standpoint, it much more resembles Jupiter than it does planet Earth.
Scientists are not sure why HD 189733, as this planet is named, is blue. They suspect that it owes its color to silicon-containing reflective particles that are part and parcel of the clouds that form it, Nature reports.
On the other hand, astrophysicist Jonathan Fortney believes that the navy-blue color “seems consistent with the scattering of light by hydrogen molecules in the atmosphere.”
Check out the video below to see an artist's impressions of this faraway blue planet.