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The largest storm ever observed was bigger than Earth itself.
The Great Dark Spot on Neptune, observed by Voyager 2 in 1989, was large enough to contain the entire Earth. Unlike Jupiter's Great Red Spot, this storm system dissipated and was gone when Hubble observed Neptune five years later.
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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...