condole with our descendants , who are going to have to find a way to venture into the white - hot furnace of HD 189733b , a major planet 63 light years off from Earth . Now that HD 189733b is the first planet outside our solar organisation that we know include organic molecules , we ’ll need to brave the temperatures of the “ Hot Jupiter , ” which range from 1200 to 1700 fahrenheit , so we can see what — if any — sort of life could survive there . Chances are it ’s just a dead world that just happens to arrest methane , one of the building occlusion of life . But we ’ve been surprised before . Click through for a art gallery of this gargantuan super - live major planet ( which needs a new name . )
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