This Freakishly Hot Exoplanet is Totally Screwed
Featuring a dayside temperature of 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit, this unfortunate planet is literally vaporising.
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Featuring a dayside temperature of 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit, this unfortunate planet is literally vaporising.
Here’s to many more bonfires in the final frontier.
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It represents a huge leap in our understanding of how the brain recognises faces and a potential window into recording what the brain is seeing.
It’s a big day for India and its very, very large rocket.
To the relief of chemtrail conspiracy theorists everywhere.
When it comes online, it will have no competition in terms of size
They're at least as pretty as Uranus'.
