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WASP-104b is Darker than Charcoal
By analysing the K2 short-cadence data from Campaign 14 we detect phase-curve modulation in the light curve of the hot-Jupiter host star WASP-104. The ellipsoidal modulation is detected with high significance and in agreement with theoretical expectations, while Doppler beaming and reflection modulations are detected tentatively. We show that the visual geometric albedo is lower than 0.03 at 95% confidence, making it one of the least-reflective planets found to date. The light curve also exhibits a rotational modulation, implying a stellar rotational period likely to be near 23 or 46 days. In addition, we refine the system parameters and place tight upper limits for transit timing and duration variations, starspot occultation events, and additional transiting planets.
WASP-104b's albedo was previously thought to be 0.4 (absorbing 60% of incoming light).
Also at ScienceAlert.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 26 2018, @07:14PM (3 children)
Indeed. Thankfully, our civilization is molded more by the Greeks than the half-illiterate, murderous sheep-fucking savages who made up Middle Eastern Jewry and Christianity! Took a hell of a long time, but we're slowly climbing back out of that morass.
Your God is a genocidal Bronze-Age holdover, Freeman. I don't know what angle I need to turn this at to get it through your head: he has exactly the same characteristics and temperament of the other God-figures in his milieu, and the theology evolved with the cultures it came in contact with over the centuries. Post-Exilic Judaism is a very different beast from its pre-Exilic form, for example. How much of this do you have even the slightest inkling of?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Freeman on Thursday April 26 2018, @07:46PM (2 children)
Ah, you mean like with the Atomic Bomb? It sure is a good thing we've come so far as to be able to nearly totally annihilate an entire city with one bomb? Or it's so much better that we are more accepting of immoral behavior? Yes, we should be accepting of the Sinner. No, we shouldn't be accepting of the Sin.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 26 2018, @08:19PM
Atomic bombs ain't got nuttin' on the Great Flood, or that whole Apocalypse thing. Bzzzzt. Try again. Or don't; you're starting to make me embarrassed *for* you if this puerile horseshit is all you can muster.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 27 2018, @06:45PM
Is our immoral behavior worse than say the Galatians or Corinthians? I would suspect not. It just took us a while to catch up to them. Whether or not so doesn't make modern people any less redeemable.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.