Extreme Exoplanet – An Ultra-Hot Jupiter Where It Rains Iron

[+Manwon Lender]

Considered an ultra-hot Jupiter – a place where iron gets vaporized, condenses on the night side and then falls from the sky like rain – the fiery, inferno-like WASP-76b exoplanet may be even more sizzling than scientists had realized. The discovery was made in high-resolution spectra obtained with Gemini North near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

Hot Jupiters are named for their high temperatures, due to proximity to their stars. WASP-76b, discovered in 2016, is about 640 light-years from Earth, but so close to its F-type star, which is slightly hotter than the sun, that the giant planet completes one orbit every 1.8 Earth days.

Extreme Exoplanet – An Ultra-Hot Jupiter Where It Rains Iron – Even More Exotic Than Originally Thought (scitechdaily.com)

[Jon the frog]

Sure that we would not get out of a spaceship like in Star Trek...

Beam me down Scotty, mooouuuuaaaarrrrrggggg !!!! 

Edited Tuesday at 11:31 PM by Jon the frog