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On this hellscape lava planet, it rains rock and the winds are supersonic – CNET
Earth-size exoplanet K2-141b would be a wonderful place to never ever visit.
Exoplanet K2-141b lives in a close orbit to its star, making it a wild and inhospitable place.
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If you ever need to feel more grateful for Earth, just take a moment to contemplate some of the truly horrifying exoplanets that lurk outside our solar system. Take, for example, K2-141b, a nightmare “lava planet” where it rains rock.
A team of researchers led by York University doctoral student Tue Giang Nguyen ran computer simulations to predict the conditions and weather on…
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