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November 6, 2020 01:07 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/06/scientists-discover-bizarre-hell-planet-where-it-rains-rocks-into-lava-oceans.html
Scientists discover "bizarre hell planet" where it rains rocks into lava oceans
In a bit of editorializing, CBS News reports that scientists from McGill University, York University, and the Indian Institute of Science Education have published a new paper about a recently-discovered "bizarre, hellish exoplanet," currently known as K2-141b.
As a press release from McGill explains:
— Read the restThe atmosphere and weather cycle of at least one such exoplanet is even stranger, featuring the evaporation and precipitation of rocks, supersonic winds that rage over 5000 km/hr, and a magma ocean 100 km deep.
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/06/scientists-discover-bizarre-hell-planet-where-it-rains-rocks-into-lava-oceans.html
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