Nothing particularly obscure about that planet; it even has a name- Osiris. I've made an image of it using Celestia; here it is Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Some more images of Osiris by other people Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Too blue, too close Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! That is a good one- right colour and everything)
I always tought that a planet that's so close to it's star would apear either really dark from underlying materials, or silverly shine like a mirror that reflects heat with perhaps some color at the poles from the solar wind.
Probably the best page on the colours of gas giants was written by Jim Whatmough, here http://www.extrasolar.net/speculations.html The hot jupiters are described at the bottom as class IV and V I have seen a published paper somewhere which basically says the same thing. Here is another of my images made using Celestia, showing a very hot and swollen gas giant world known as Hat-P-1. http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/7369/leviathan2vv2.jpg Note how dark the surface is where it is not glowing.
... to bad he died. More then accurate his work was also pretty Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
