Raining Vaporized Rock: Hubble Probes Bizarre Weather Conditions on Sizzling Worlds - SciTechDaily

Sizzling Worlds Vaporize Most of the Dust in Their Atmospheres "When you're hot, you're hot!" crooned country singer Jerry Reed in a top 1971 pop music song. Hubble astronomers might change the lyrics to: "when you're hot, you're super-hot!" This comes from s…

This is an artist’s illustration of the planet KELT-20b which orbits a blue-white star. The giant planet is so close to its star (5 million miles) the torrent of ultraviolet radiation from the star h… [+7160 chars]

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