10 Insane Planets You Won't Believe Exist
1. The One With The Rain
Ah, yes... Murder World.
Time to role play. You're part of an interstellar voyage. You've been in space for... well... you don't really know. Way too many solar days, you guess. The last some-odd years of your life have been nothing but the black, empty, cavernous vacuum of space, only occasionally punctuated by molten red hellscapes, not unlike virtually every other planet on this list. Then, in the distance, you see HD 189773 b, and what a snack it is. Nice and blue, not unlike Earth. It's got those pretty, wispy-looking clouds. So tranquil. So serene. You think, "Hey, maybe there's some respite to be had."
NOPE!
You're greeted by "rain," only it's not rain. It's not water. It's not rubies and sapphires, like HAT-P-7b. It's not even the scorching rock of K2-141 b. You'd be practically begging for that.
No, on HD 189773 b, it rains molten glass. Yes, you heard/read that right. Molten glass. Sideways. At 5,400 mph. Does that sound like fun to you? Walking into what is essentially a planet-sized paper shredder? HD 189773 b's volcano-like temperatures condense the atmosphere's silicate particles into glass, and the wind picks them up, slinging them across the planet at seven times the speed of sound.
Let's... Let's just steer clear of this one. How 'bout it?