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There’s a planet that experiences metallic snow.
On the planet WASP-178b, temperatures are so high that metals exist as vapors in the atmosphere. These metallic vapors condense on the planet's cooler nightside, creating snow made of titanium oxide. This exotic weather cycle is unlike anything seen in our solar system.
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The entire Milky Way smells like rum and tastes like raspberries.
Large clouds of ethyl formate, a chemical that gives raspberries their flavor and rum its smell, have been...
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Some stars are cool enough to touch.
Brown dwarfs, failed stars that never got massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion, can have surface temperatures as...
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There’s a planet made largely of diamonds.
55 Cancri e, a super-Earth about 40 light-years away, is likely made largely of carbon under such extreme...