7 Creepy worlds across the cosmos

Deadly rain

Planet: HD 189733 b

Discovered: 2005

Distance from Earth: 63 lightyears

If the barefoot scene from Die Hard makes you wince, you wouldn’t like life on this exoplanet. It rains shards of glass in over 7,000-kilometre-per-hour winds. This world may be blue like ours, but it’s nothing like Earth. Its colour comes from silicate particles condensing into glass in the superheated atmosphere. These glass raindrops scatter more blue light than red, resulting in swirls of cobalt clouds.

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