Let's imagine a supersonic fighter flying over us. Moments later, we heard a deafening loud bang. The aircraft broke the supersonic barrier. Now consider that in the universe 202 light-years from Earth, there is an exoplanet K2-141b from the K2-141 star system. Its surface constantly vibrates with an eerie rumbling sound. They are produced by huge winds with a velocity of 175 kilometers per second, which is 5 times faster than the speed of sound.
If anyone wants to know what hell looks like, then they should focus on exoplanet K2-141b. Truly terrible things happen there. The space object is as close to its parent body as possible. Gravity anomalies cause two-thirds of the surface to "fry" under the sun's heat.
In fact, one hemisphere of the Earth is always on the sunny side with temperatures of up to 3000°C. It is believed that it may be covered by an eternal lava ocean up to 100 kilometers deep and has a bizarre atmosphere composed of heavy metal vapors and silicates. After all, neither metal nor stone can withstand such temperatures.
At the far end of the exoplanet, there is eternal darkness and terrible cold - up to -200 °C. The wind is several times faster than the speed of sound, rushing from the direction of light to darkness and carrying lava smoke with it. When the weather gets colder, the stone rain will fly to the surface and a loud roar will be heard. But such a deafening "salvo" could not be heard in the entire shadow section.
K2-141B was discovered in 2017. Its rocky world, K2-141B, has 5 times the mass of Earth. And the radius is one and a half times larger than the radius of our planet. According to this, it can be assumed that the gravitational force on this object is at least twice as strong as on Earth. Heavy metal cores make up 30 to 50 percent of its mass.
The exoplanet K2-141b is in 6Complete orbit around its parent star in 5 hours. At the same time, it always faces its luminous body on one side. According to the researchers, the central area of the dark side is an icy desert covered with layers of frozen stones.
Despite its high temperatures, K2-141b is far from the hottest planet known. For example, Kelt-9B is 670 light-years away from Earth. Its surface temperature is 1330 °C higher than that of K2-141B. But this is a completely different story.