Stratosphere protects WASP's hot body, say boffins

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has helped identify an exoplanet's stratosphere for the first time. WASP-33b isn't a place any of us want to visit – it's a gas giant four times the size of Jupiter, and so close to its star that its atmospheric temperature is 10,000°F (more than 5,500°C). Since NASA's press release about …

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you could turn the planet into an automated paint shop - fly your finished space ship past it and get it spray painted reflective white

[Mystic Megabyte]

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Nope, the masking tape would burn off and you would end up with a white windscreen.

[Martin 47]

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Pish, use enough gaffer tape and she'll be right.

[AbelSoul]

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+1 for use of the word pish.

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whose body - Atlanta or Marina?

[Destroy All Monsters]

White anglo-saxon protestants are not noted for being particulary hot.