Tres-2b planet

Meet TrEs-2b, the planet of eternal night. This alien world is less reflective than coal. Some scientists think an eerie deep red glow would emanate from its burning atmosphere – the air of this planet is as hot as lava.

TrEs-2b - Also known as the Dark Planet, TrEs-2b is officially the darkest planet in the known universe. It reflects less than 1% of light, and they say that it is so dark that even coal seems brighter than it.

The hot Jupiter HD149026b has an atmosphere rich in heavy elements and an elevated carbon-to-oxygen ratio, defying solar system trends. This diversity offers clues to exoplanet formation. Gas giants orbiting our sun show a clear pattern; the more massive the planet, the lower the percentage of “h

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⚫️ Darkest Known Exoplanet. TrES-2b is a Jupiter-sized exoplanet discovered in 2006 by the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES). It happens to be in the field-of-view of NASA’s Kepler space telescope and observations by Kepler found that it reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it. This makes TrES-2b one of the darkest exoplanets currently known. TrES-2b orbits just five million kilometres from its parent star and has an orbital period of only 2.47 days. It is in a…

Exoplanets, also called as "extrasolar planets" are the planets that exist outside our solar system that orbit stars other than our sun. The Dark Planet: TrES-2b does not reflect any light and hence been named as “The Dark Planet”. It reflects a meagre 1% of the light projected on it.

Kepler has found the darkest known planet in universe--a Jupiter-sized exoplanet some 750 light-years away that is so black that it reflects just one percent of the light that reaches it. TrES-2b is so black that it's darker than coal, or any other planet or moon that we've yet discovered. It's less reflective than black acrylic paint. To summarize: it's really, really black.