5 Crazy Planets that Actually Exist!

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 J1407B, known as the super-Saturn.

This planet is 434 light years away from earth.

The mass of J1407B is 40 times the mass of Jupiter .

This planet has 37 ring's, measuring up to 120 million kilometers, or 200 times the size of Saturn’s rings. 

An unofficially named Dwarf Star was newly discovered, so cold (for a star it’s still almost 3,000 degrees), that its carbon atoms have crystallized into a diamond and it shines at all.

The planet on the side is known as a pulsar, a spinning star as dense as an atomic nucleus. 

 The CoRoT-7b is a strange and mysterious planet outside our solar system, and the first rocky planet discovered orbiting a star other than the Sun. It is believed to have been a giant gas planet  initially, like Neptune or Saturn, but due to its proximity to its host,  it gradually lost its gas and atmosphere layers. Since it is tidally  locked, it always faces its star on one side where temperature is can be  4000°F, while the temperature on the side facing away is as about  350°F. The conditions lead to rock rain: vaporized rocks that fall as  liquid rock rain, and solidify on the surface of the planet. 

 It was originally suggested that the planet known as HD 106906 b shouldn’t exist due to it’s size and distance from its star. 

 The giant planet is 650 times the distance from Earth to the sun and and is 11 times the size of Jupiter. 

 However, the average temperature on the planet is a staggering 1500  degrees Celsius, despite its vast distance from it’s host star.

 This illustration depicts MY Camelopardalis, a system of two young stars orbiting each other so closely that they’re touching. 

They will eventually merge into a single star 60 times heavier.

Hope you enjoyed today's 5 crazy planets

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