Molten alien planet with sulfur-choked atmosphere displays unique hellscape
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) – Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood 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 planet’s diameter is more than 60%…