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The Darkest World (2016x20)

Air date: Jul 10, 2016

TrES-2b is the darkest known exoplanet ever detected, reflecting less light than black paint. Prof Kipping, who helped discover the extreme low reflectivity back in 2011, explains how it was found, why this object was chosen for analysis in the first place and what physically could be causing the planet to be so dark. ::More about this Video:: ► O'Donovan et al. (2006), "TrES-2: The First Transiting Planet in the Kepler Field": http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609335 ► Kipping & Spiegel (2011), "Detection of visible light from the darkest world": http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2297 ► BBC News article: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14476411 ► Outro music by Taylor Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl9kI1yQKZk ::Playlists For Channel:: Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► http://bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds Cool Worlds Research ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch Guest Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests Q&A Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA Science of TV/Film ► http://bit.ly/ScienceMovies ::Follow us:: SUBSCRIBE to the channel http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribe Cool Worlds Lab http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu Twitter https://twitter.com/david_kipping Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cool.worlds THANKS FOR WATCHING!!