{"id":103809,"date":"2020-03-15T13:45:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T20:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/astronomers-discover-scorching-hot-planet-where-it-rains-liquid-iron"},"modified":"2020-03-15T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T20:45:21","slug":"astronomers-discover-scorching-hot-planet-where-it-rains-liquid-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/astronomers-discover-scorching-hot-planet-where-it-rains-liquid-iron","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discover scorching hot planet where it rains liquid iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-scorching-hot-planet-where-it-rains-liquid-iron2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On one particularly hot planet, hundreds of light-years away from Earth, the forecast is cloudy with a chance of liquid iron rain. Scientists recently discovered the bizarre exoplanet, which they referred to as one of the most \u201cextreme\u201d they\u2019ve ever observed.<\/p>\n<p>Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), researchers observed an \u201cultra-hot\u201d giant exoplanet, where temperatures can exceed 2,400 degrees Celsius during the day \u2014 hot enough to vaporize metals.<\/p>\n<p>One face of the planet, its \u201cday side,\u201d is always facing its parent star and permanently roasting, while the cooler \u201cnight side\u201d remains in constant darkness. Because of this, when strong winds push vaporized iron to the night side, it condenses into droplets, creating an iron rainstorm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On one particularly hot planet, hundreds of light-years away from Earth, the forecast is cloudy with a chance of liquid iron rain. Scientists recently discovered the bizarre exoplanet, which they referred to as one of the most \u201cextreme\u201d they\u2019ve ever observed. Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), researchers observed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}