Imagine a world where the clouds are made of metal and liquid rubies and sapphires rain down from the sky. A new study shows that, on the hot Jupiter exoplanet WASP-121 b, this could be the reality.
Ultra-hot Jupiters — named as such because of their physical similarities to the planet Jupiter — are exoplanets that orbit stars other than the sun with temperatures so high that the molecules in ...
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NASA’s James Webb just caught a planet 700 light-years away where rock-mineral clouds form every morning and vanish by night — the first daily weather cycle ever l…
Every morning on WASP-94A b, clouds made of vaporized rock and metal condense out of the atmosphere. Every evening, they’re ...
Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Make the ...
Hot and cold: artist's impression of the exoplanet WASP-121b and its host star. (Courtesy: NASA, ESA, and G Bacon (STSci)) Liquid metal, ruby and sapphire could rain down on one hemisphere of a ...
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