The US space agency NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a shocking video detailing exoplanet horrors. An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The video, styled as a nostalgic horror film trailer, highlighting a few of the most bizarre and inhospitable alien planets that scientists have discovered.
The voiceover said: “For eons, human beings have gazed up at its tranquil beauty, taking solace in the peaceful stillness of this vast and eternal cosmic cornucopia.
“And yet all the while, lurking beyond our solar system, among the billions of stars and the exoplanets that orbit them is another sort of Milky Way altogether.
“A far more sinister space, a place only sophisticated space telescopes and imaging processes can reveal, a place of unequaled terrors.”
The first example are “Rains of Terror”, which are “winds of up to 5,400 miles per hour and torrential rains of glass, blowing sideways”.
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NASA described them as “the killer you never see coming”.
The voiceover continued: “The weather here is deadly.
“This hazy, blow-torched atmosphere is riddled with silicate particles.”
This makes “an unearthly deathtrap” that no human could face.
The radiation from the zombie star rains down on the planet, as well as their neighbouring dead worlds.
This creates sickly irradiated auroras.
Thalia Rivera, an outreach specialist at NASA, said: “People are often most interested in finding exoplanets that could resemble Earth or potentially support life as we know it.
“But there are so many other amazing, mystifying planets out there that are completely unlike Earth and that show us the huge variety of ways planets can form and evolve.
“My favorite thing about exoplanets is how extreme they can get!”
