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Light from the Sun takes 8 minutes to reach Earth but 100,000 years to travel from its core to its surface.
While sunlight travels through space at incredible speed, the journey from the Sun's core to its surface is much slower because photons bounce around inside the Sun countless times before finally reaching the surface. This process is called the 'random walk' of photons.
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There’s a planet covered in lava oceans with winds seven times the speed of sound.
K2-141b is a planet so hot that it has oceans of molten rock and supersonic winds made of...
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There’s a planet covered in burning ice.
Gliese 436 b, a Neptune-sized exoplanet, is covered in a form of water ice that remains solid despite...
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There’s a planet that orbits its star every 18 hours.
WASP-19b orbits so close to its star that a year on this planet lasts just 18 hours. This...