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Spitzer stargazers find hot, windy planets

Brett Brennan

Sounds like they found HELL 

Well, if a hot, dark planet is out there as "Spicy" is described, I'd say this is a good candidate for the proverbial HELL we've all been told we're going to.

Now, if only they can find a cool, bright place with lots of harps...

BossHog

Windy & Spicy 

Sounds like a curry.

Well done on some creative renaming - it really worked! :)

Alastair Dodd

SI Units please 

Centigrade or kelvin are much better to use - I find it hard to understand a scale that is related to the temperature of a horse's anus.

Carrie

It's NASA, not SI 

NASA did the research, hence the ridiculous units.

They're not too good at converting between imperial and SI units... remember the mixup with the Mars satellite that put it in the planet?

D'Oh.

Ross Fleming

Dumbing down much? 

Thanks for clarifying that the light from Windy takes 60 years to reach us and that it's 60 light-years away. Could someone clarify for me how long it takes the light to get from Spicy at 279 light-years away?