'At optical wavelengths, you would be able to see a glowing, red-hot planet with a molten lava surface,' an astrophysicist said.
A roiling-hot exoplanet billions of miles away has been discovered, dotted with so many volcanos that it would visibly glow in the darkness of space.This planet, named TOI-6713.01, orbits a star situated around 66 light-years away from our solar system and is a rocky world around 30 percent larger than Earth, according to a new paper in The Astronomical Journal.
Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System. Its surface is covered with hundreds of volcanoes, many of which are capable of ejecting plumes of sulfur and sulfur dioxide hundreds of miles into space.This intense activity is primarily due to the tidal heating caused by gravitational interactions with Jupiter and the other Galilean moons. Jupiter's powerful gravitational pull, paired with the influence of the other moons, pulls Io into a strange elliptical orbit.
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