Would you like to visit a world where it rains rock?
. These worlds are more than curiosities; they're evidence of how a star can influence an orbiting planet’s atmosphere.
"We still don't have a good understanding of weather in different planetary environments," David Sing, co-author on papers describing the two planets and an astrophysicist at the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, said in a7 solar system worlds where the weather is wild "When you look at Earth, all our weather predictions are still finely tuned to what we can measure," Sing said. Not so at an exoplanet, he noted."Even though you know the basic chemistry and physics, you don't know how it's going to manifest in complex ways."
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