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Some planets are darker than coal.
TrES-2b reflects less than 1% of the light that hits it, making it darker than any known planet or moon. This 'dark Jupiter' is so black because its atmosphere contains light-absorbing chemicals and is too hot for reflective clouds to form.
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Some planets orbit their stars in figure-eight patterns.
In binary star systems, planets can follow complex figure-eight orbital patterns due to the gravitational influence of both...
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Jupiter’s moon Io has lakes of liquid sulfur.
Due to intense tidal heating from Jupiter, Io has lakes of molten sulfur on its surface that can...
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There’s a planet where it snows titanium dioxide.
On Kepler-13Ab, a planet 1,730 light-years from Earth, it snows titanium dioxide - the same compound used in...