Weirdest planets in the universe
Chapter 1
Worlds of extreme ingredients
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Chapter 2
Surviving in extreme cosmic neighborhoods
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Chapter 3
Wild weather and molten surfaces
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Chapter 4
The detective work of finding weird planets
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YOUR GOAL
Master of Weirdest planets in the universe
Ch 3 · Wild weather and molten surfaces
teacher Did you know, up in the night? (Oh-oh!) / Planets can burn so bright! (So bright!) / WASP-121b, it's truly wild! (So wild!) / Rains molten gems, no longer mild! (Yeah!)
Fun Fact
Iron rain: On the ultra-hot planet WASP-76b, the winds are so powerful they carry vaporized iron across the planet at 11,000 miles per hour.
Quiz
In what year did astronomers first analyze the evaporating atmospheric tail of planet Osiris?