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There’s a planet where it rains rubies and sapphires.
On HAT-P-7b, a gas giant 1,000 light-years away, changing temperatures in the atmosphere cause aluminum oxide (the same material as rubies and sapphires) to condense into clouds and then rain down as precious stones. The planet's extreme heat then vaporizes these gems back into clouds.
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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...