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There’s a planet made of solid diamond that’s five times the size of Earth.
PSR J1719-1438 b is a planet formed from the compressed core of a dead star. The extreme pressure has crystallized its carbon into diamond. This 'diamond planet' orbits a pulsar and completes one orbit every two hours and ten minutes, making it one of the fastest-orbiting planets known.
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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...