Astronomers discovered a giant planet where it rains iron

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Wasp-76b is what astronomers call an exoplanet, one that orbits a star outside our solar system. Scientists have discovered that the local weather conditions include 2,400C temperatures, winds in excess of 10,000mph and a steady pelting of iron rain. 

 Wasp-76b, which is 640 light years away in the constellation of Pisces, is an ultra-hot gas giant. It orbits its star at about 3% of the distance between the Earth and the Sun, resulting in scorching surface temperatures and the weird phenomenon of molten iron falling from the sky.

“It’s a kind of world we can’t imagine easily because we don’t have anything like that in our solar system,” said Christophe Lovis, an exoplanet researcher at the University of Geneva and co-author of the paper.

 On the day side, which is 1,000 degrees hotter, molecules separate into atoms, and iron evaporates into the atmosphere to form metallic clouds. The extreme temperature difference between the day and night sides produces ferocious winds that carry the iron vapour to the cooler night side, where temperatures decrease to about 1,500C and the iron condenses and falls as rain that constantly peppers the planet’s gas surface and vanishes beneath it.

The team used Espresso to detect iron where day turns to night -- a line called the 'terminator' -- however in reverse, where the terminator turns from night to day, they couldn't detect the same signal. When the vaporized iron gets to the night side it condenses and rains down on WASP-76b in what can only be described as, "The Perfect Stage Show For An Iron Maiden Concert."

"One could say that this planet gets rainy in the evening, except it rains iron," said David Ehrenreich, an astronomer at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and first author on the paper, in a press release. 

The wild finding helps astronomers learn more about the extreme climates of distant planets and how they might impact processes across the cosmos.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/11/scientists-identify-rain-of-molten-iron-on-distant-exoplanet

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/techandscience/astronomers-discovered-a-giant-planet-where-it-rains-iron/ar-BB11410m

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I wonder how long it will be before we can harvest it  

Ladies and gentlemen, the future of oil monopolies 

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Rain on Me feat. Ariana being about the extreme weather conditions on the Chromatica planet.

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But do they have Spotify and iTunes  there? 

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Can we have a planet where it rains men?

 

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Not chromatica already getting competition before its release. 

 

 

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@FfFfFfFF book a space shuttle for us 

We can make a quick visit there 

Corona also coming for us 

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But there's nothing like our Earth 

What happened to Mars? 

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that's gotta hurt

not you guys making me crave for a rain of red iron with Gaga and ariana with a had trap beat with some electronics

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This is so surreal to me  makes me think about how little humans know about life in our universe 

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Send Greta there to help them

 

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that is weird. man the universe is a brutal place. 

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Aliens from this iron planet be looking at Earth like 'wow we've discovered a planet where it rains water!'

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I ****ing love space