On Giant Blue Alien Planet, It Rains Molten Glass

In the film “the chronicles of Riddick” we see a planet with a prison on it, with a twist..

When the planet rotates and the sun rises, the direct heat from the sun torches the sruface in a planet wide wall of fire. This wall rages across the surface all day every day..  The planet is just a big ball of rock suffering incredible heat during the day time.

I’m just wondering how bad that is compared to one that rains glass.. all the time..!!

The planet’s atmosphere is scorching with a temperature of over 1000 degrees Celsius, and it rains glass, sideways, in howling 7000 kilometer-per-hour winds.

 

 

Almost makes the ‘Riddick’ planet seem like home..

Neither would be an option for anyone to really spend any time, but it does make you wonder if anything is actually alive there, or what types of new materials we would find. Recently there was a report on how the ancient Egyptians used beads of glass from space to create their jewelry.. Was this planet one of the sources?

 

There’s a “blue marble” alien planet just 63 light-years from Earth, but the world is anything but friendly to life. Researchers say the blue color in the atmosphere likely comes from a rain of molten glass.

This super-hot glass rain is just one consequence of the close proximity between the gas giant alien planet HD189733b and its sun. which causes daytime temperatures to soar as high as 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit (930 degrees Celsius), scientists said.

A fresh set of observations of the planet in X-rays also suggest HD189733b has an outer atmosphere that is far larger than expected. [See more images  of the blue alien planet HD 189733b]

 

These surprise finds are all signals that so-called hot Jupiter alien planets are worthy of study on their own, even though they are hostile planets to life, researchers said.

 

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On Giant Blue Alien Planet, It Rains Molten Glass