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Sunset on an alien world

Now THAT’S an artist’s rendition of a far-away planet I can get behind. I don’t usually go for those, since so few are based in real science.

This one, however, is different. HD209458b is a planet orbiting a star not unlike our sun. By studying its atmospheric makeup using the Hubble Space Telescope and predicting how light would bend in that chemical makeup, Frédéric Pont made this scientific interpretation of what a sunset would look like if you were on this planet, 150 light-years away.

But don’t think about that right now. It’s just really pretty,

(via Bad Astronomy)