By the word of the LORD were the heavens made;
and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Psalm 33:6
"There's a "blue marble" alien planet just 63 light-years from Earth, but the world is anything but friendly to life. Researchers say the blue color in the atmosphere likely comes from a rain of molten glass.This super-hot glass rain is just one consequence of the close proximity between the gas giant alien planet HD189733b and its sun. which causes daytime temperatures to soar as high as 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit.
While common in the universe, however, Hot Jupiters are totally different than what denizens of Earth's solar system encounter. In our case, small, rocky planets orbit close to the star and the gas giants are much farther out.
The latest observations of HD189733b are challenging some theories of planetary formation and are just one of the reasons Hot Jupiters are earning more attention from astronomers these days." Space.com
"Like most hot Jupiters, this planet is thought to be tidally locked to its parent star, meaning it has a permanent day and night. The blueness of the planet may be the result of Rayleigh scattering." wikipedia