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This image made available by the European Southern Observatory in March 2020 shows an illustration by graphic novelist Frederik Peeters titled "Singin' in the Iron Rain - An Evening on WASP-76b." On the hot, faraway planet, it's always cloudy with a chance of iron rain. That's the otherworldly forecast Wednesday, March 11, 2020 from Swiss and other European astronomers who have detected clouds full of iron droplets at a hot Jupiter-like world 390 light years away. (Frederik Peeters/ESO via AP)

This image made available by the European Southern Observatory in March 2020 shows an illustration by graphic novelist Frederik Peeters titled "Singin' in the Iron Rain - An Evening on WASP-76b." On the hot, faraway planet, it's always cloudy with a chance of iron rain. That's the otherworldly forecast Wednesday, March 11, 2020 from Swiss and other European astronomers who have detected clouds full of iron droplets at a hot Jupiter-like world 390 light years away. …

March 11, 2020

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It's cloudy with a chance of iron rain at hot, faraway world

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — At one hot, faraway world, it's always cloudy with a chance of iron rain.