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There’s a planet where a year lasts just 2.7 hours.
PVHS 1003+2020 b orbits its neutron star host so quickly that its entire year takes less than three hours. The extreme gravitational forces are slowly tearing the planet apart. Scientists estimate it loses about 100,000 tons of mass every second.
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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...