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Oliver Schick

Of all the astronomy articles in recent weeks, this was my favourite:

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.

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

I always enjoy this exoplanet stuff. Some excellent speculation.

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Backstop in reply to @Oliver Schick

Some excellent speculation.

Some extreme speculation, our ability to investigate exo atmospheres has a long way to go. I'm a little out of date, but no particular mission has launched in the last 5 years to improve the situation, the extrapolation from very few data points was alarming.

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