Cosmologists have found a discovered a bizarre exoplanet that rains iron at night. The daytime side of this world, named WASP-76 b, isn’t any less hellish, either. Temperatures can reach up to 4,300 degrees Fahrenheit (2,400 degrees Celsius) — sufficiently hot to vaporize metal.

“One could say that this planet gets rainy in the evening, except it rains iron,” University of Geneva astronomer David Ehrenreich, who led the new study, said in a press release.

WASP-76 b is marginally smaller than Jupiter and sits approximately 640 light-years from Earth in the star constellation Pisces. Its appalling climate is brought about by its outrageous orbit. Gas giant worlds like WASP-76 b are called hot Jupiters since they orbit awkwardly near their home stars — right now, nearly 10 times nearer than Mercury is to Sun.

WASP-76 b’s daytime side gets hit with a huge number of times more radiation than Earth gets from the Sun. What’s more, this singing radiation disintegrates iron on the dayside. Winds driven by extraordinary temperature contrasts at that point push the metal around the planet to the evening time half of the globe. There, cooler temperatures let the iron consolidate into drops and fall as an unusual rain.

“Surprisingly, however, we don’t see iron vapor on the other side of the planet in the morning,” University of Geneva researcher Christophe Lovis said in a media release. “The conclusion is that the iron has condensed during the night. In other words, it rains iron on the night side of this extreme exoplanet.”

It’s the first time cosmologists have identified this sort of day-to-night chemical difference on a hot Jupiter like WASP-76 b.

Specialists found the planet utilizing the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. In particular, the disclosure was made conceivable gratitude to an instrument called the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO). Stargazers initially intended to utilize this VLT instrument to study Earth-like planets around stars like Sun. In any case, they speculated that the VLT’s outrageous size would be ideal for contemplating the atmospheres of different exoplanets. It turns out they were correct.

Their disclosure of iron rain on WASP-76 b was made during ESPRESSO’s first-since forever science perceptions. What’s more, that implies there’s likely a lot more bizarre worlds out there simply standing by to be uncovered.

“What we have now is a whole new way to trace the climate of the most extreme exoplanets,” Ehrenreich said.