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Prince had purple rain. Roy Batty had tears in rain. Saturn's moon Titan has methane rain. But none of those phenomena are as extremely metal as WASP-76b, an ultra-hot planet approximately 640 light-years from Earth. When day turns to night on the distant planet, something weird happens. It rains …
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