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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 temperatures of 800°F (427°C). This 'burning ice' exists because of the planet's intense gravity, which creates pressures so high that water molecules are forced into a solid state called Ice X.
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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 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...
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The universe has a color, and it’s called cosmic latte.
When astronomers averaged the color of all the light coming from all known galaxies, they found that the...