The planet, named L 98-59 d, was discovered in 2019, then was observed by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2024. Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape — covered with a perpetual ocean of magma and enveloped by a noxious and fiercely hot sulfur-rich atmosphere. The molten p... [4001 chars]
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