Chapter 1
Worlds of extreme ingredients
Chapter 2
Surviving in extreme cosmic neighborhoods
Chapter 3
Wild weather and molten surfaces
Chapter 4
The detective work of finding weird planets
Ch 2 · Surviving in extreme cosmic neighborhoods
artiteacher Surviving in extreme cosmic neighborhoods
Out in deep cosmic neighborhoods, A sapphire world spins by. But get this, it's raining glass, Blown sideways from the sky.
BETA
artiteacher Journey through alien systems to uncover the universe's weirdest planets.
artiteacher These three planets orbit a rapidly spinning pulsar, constantly bathed in deadly, high-energy radiation from a collapsed star.
Fun Fact
Giant rings: If planet J1407b replaced Saturn in our solar system, its massive rings would be easily visible from Earth during the day.
artiteacher Stripped from their parent stars, rogue planets drift through the pitch-black galaxy without any sun to warm them.
Quiz
In what year were the first exoplanets ever confirmed, which orbit a dead pulsar star?
Quiz
What is the term for planets like CFBDSIR 2149-0403 that drift through space without a parent star?
Quiz
What fictional movie planet is Kepler-16b often compared to because of its double sunsets?