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Did you know there’s a planet where it rains glass and it smells like rotten eggs too?
It’s called HD 189733 b, it’s 64 light-years from Earth, and it’s a gas giant orbiting super close to its star. Temperatures there top 900°C, and its atmosphere is packed with silicates, the same material glass is made of. Its winds are insane: over 8,700 km/h (5,400 mph). With that kind of force, those silicate particles could get blasted sideways, creating something like a sideways rain of glass. And as if that weren’t enough, the James Webb Space Telescope detected hydrogen sulfide in its atmosphere. Yep, the compound behind that rotten egg smell. So this planet wouldn’t just shred you with glass at insane speeds, it would also smell terrible.…
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The 5 Strangest Exoplanets in the Universe | James Webb Telescope
Imagine a planet where it rains molten iron. Another where sunrise and sunset are so different they feel like two separate worlds. One that orbits the remains of a dead star and might rain diamonds. And another that could be entirely covered by a global ocean — with a chemical signal that, on Earth, is produced almost exclusively by life. This isn’t science fiction. These are real planets, light-years away, currently being studied with some of the most advanced telescopes ever built, including the James Webb Space Telescope. In this article, we walk through the five strangest and most fascinating exoplanets discovered so far, backed by verified data and the…
