artist's impression of K2-141b.
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— 5 years ago(November 05, 2020 05:33 AM)artist's impression of K2-141b.
Julie Roussy, McGill Graphic Design and Getty Images.
Astronomers have uncovered a hellscape planet that rains rocks, has deep lava oceans, and clocks winds of more than 3000 mph.
The planet dubbed K2-141b exists more than 200 light-years away and is one of the “most extreme” ever discovered, according to a paper published Tuesday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Scientists said it is flogged by winds four times the speed of sound and has an ocean of lava more than 60 miles deep.
The planet also has temperatures that plunge on one side to negative 328 degrees Fahrenheit — so low that it can freeze nitrogen.
On the other part of the planet, temperatures rise to 5432 degrees Fahrenheit, which is high enough to vaporize rock. Scientists said the extreme heat allows the rocks to precipitate as if they were particles of water.
Similar to Earth, the particles follow cycles in which they evaporate, rise into the atmosphere, condense and then come back as rain. But on K2-141b, the evaporated particles are pulled to the frigid side by supersonic winds — causing rocks to rain back down into the lava ocean, the Telegraph reported.
Scientists, however, said they predict that the mineral composition of the planet will change over time.
“All rocky planets, including Earth, started off as molten worlds but then rapidly cooled and solidified. Lava planets give us a rare glimpse at this stage of planetary evolution,” said one of the authors, McGill University Professor Nicolas Cowan.
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(November 05, 2020 05:45 AM)
There's no reason to believe Hell is not on a separate planet.
The Mormons believe God lives on a planet named Kolob.
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(November 05, 2020 06:11 AM)
Well you'll have to tell me what makes the porn "Mormon"? All white people? Like those blond missionary boys? Yeah, AJ would like that I guess.
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TheBookBears — 5 years ago(November 06, 2020 03:34 AM)
That day, more people start to attend churches and there would be long line to the confessional stall.
And atheist start crying in the shower with cold water spraying on them.
Jokes aside, I imagine one day they will send the criminals who committed the most heinous crimes there and watch them suffer from the distance.
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DrakeStraw — 5 years ago(November 06, 2020 03:45 AM)
And we thought venus was bad! Actually, I doubt if the exoplanet is this nice. That rocky atmosphere has got to be more dense.
artist's impression of K2-141b.
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