get your rocks off

This planet is so hot its rocks get vaporized

K2-141 b is gravitationally locked to its star, meaning one side is blazing hot but the other is deadly cold.

by JoAnna Wendel
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200 lightyears away, there is a planet with a surface, an ocean, an atmosphere, and even rain.

And they’re all made out of rock.

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