Horror! NASA Finds Hell-like Planet
6/05/2022
NASA claims to have found a terrible planet that is compared to hell.
The planet, 50 light-years away, will be revealed in the coming weeks via the James Webb Space Telescope, and NASA is gearing up for nightmare things.
The planet, called 55 Cancri e, orbits so close to its "Sun-like star" that its surface conditions can literally be Hell, where a dimension is in a constant state of burning.
"With surface temperatures well above the melting points of typical rock-forming minerals, the daytime side of the planet is expected to be covered in a sea of lava," NASA reported last week .
“Imagine if the Earth were far, far closer to the Sun. So close that a year lasts only a few hours. So close that gravity has locked one hemisphere of the earth in permanent burning daylight and the other in endless darkness. So close that the oceans boil away, the rock begins to melt, and the clouds rain down on the lava."
The planet is "tidally locked, with one side facing the star at all times" or if it rotates it creates day and night.
Preliminary views from NASA's still unconfirmed Spitzer Space Telescope suggest something mysterious is happening at 55 Cancri e, as the hottest point is not directly facing the star.
One theory is that the planet has a "dynamic atmosphere that transfers heat," NASA said.
Another guess is that the 55 Cancri e spins to create day and night, but with terrible results.
"In this scenario, the surface would heat up, melt, and even evaporate during the day, forming a very thin atmosphere that Webb could detect," NASA said.
"At night, the vapor will cool and condense to form lava droplets that will rain back to the surface, becoming solid again as night falls."
The James Webb Space Telescope is expected to be fully operational in "just a few weeks" and its first observations are expected through the summer, NASA said.
The telescope is capable of detecting the presence of an atmosphere, scientists say.
His first year will be devoted to studying 55 Cancri e and the stuffy planet LHS 3844 b, to try and understand "the evolution of rocky planets like Earth," NASA said.
