Weird Alien Planets Astronomers Discovered Only Recently

CoRoT-7b

IMAGE BY: NASA

On CoRoT-7b, it snows rocks. This planet is tidally locked, meaning that the same side always faces the sun, and gets so hot that surface rock turns to lava, then evaporates. The resulting lava clouds drift toward the constantly dark side of the planet, where they harden again to rain down as solid chunks of rock. Wear a hardhat if you want to visit this place.

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