It may rain sand on this mysterious ‘cotton candy’ exoplanet, where scientists just made an Earth-like discovery

It may rain sand on this mysterious ‘cotton candy’ exoplanet, where scientists just made an Earth-like discovery

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On Earth, it mostly rains water. But according to a new discovery published in Nature, it may rain sand on other planets. WASP-107b is a “fluffy” planet located 211 light years away. It orbits its host star (a K-type star, larger and cooler than our own sun) in just 5.7 days. While it has a mass…

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