00:03There are a lot of wild planets out there, but recently discovered VHS 1256 b is one of the wildest.
00:11It's relatively close to our own planet, but we won't be going there probably ever, primarily due to the fact
00:16that it's so big.
00:17The planet has the mass of around 20 Jupiters, meaning it's around 6,360 times the mass of our own
00:24planet.
00:25But that's just the beginning. It's all so hot, with ambient temperatures high enough to melt aluminum.
00:29And that's probably because it has not one, but two stars in which it orbits.
00:34A journey which takes the hell planet 10,000 years to complete.
00:37The planet was recently discovered, but now the James Webb Space Telescope has given us a better idea of what's
00:42going on on the surface.
00:44And now experts say not only would anyone who travels there be extremely hot and hundreds of times heavier due
00:49to its mass,
00:49you would also be hit with extreme and constant sandstorms made of silicate grain.
00:54Scientists are having a hard time with this particular planet,
00:56as it's almost big enough to have been a brown dwarf or a failed star.
01:00Yet currently planetary formation models suggest they form after stars do,
01:04growing out of the leftover material and coalescing into a planet.
01:08So, we'll see you guys in the right direction.
01:09We will begin with a number one.
01:09We'll see you next time on what's going on on the Earth.
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01:13We'll see you next time!
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