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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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The Sun contains 99.86% of all the mass in our solar system.
Despite the planets, asteroids, comets, and other objects in our solar system, almost all the mass is contained...
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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 covered in burning ice.
Gliese 436 b, a Neptune-sized exoplanet, is covered in a form of water ice that remains solid despite...