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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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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...