Exoplanet with iron rain has violent winds 'like something out of science fiction

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Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by liquid iron rains.

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"Many of the extraordinary features of WASP-121 b arise from the fact that it is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant planet with around 1.2 times the mass of its solar system namesake. WASP-121 b actually orbits so close to its star that a year there lasts just 30 Earth hours."

Another report I read on this exoplanet, Surprising signatures in WASP-121b's dynamic atmosphere challenge understanding of how 'roasting marshmallows' form, https://phys.org/news/2025-01-signatures-wasp-121b-dynamic-atmosphere.html

This site shows 569 exoplanets with orbital period < 2 days, https://exoplanet.eu/home/