Astronomers discover a weird "mirror planet" with clouds of glass and titanium

A European Space Agency Satellite just spotted a mirror made of clouds on a blazing-hot exoplanet.

A layer of glass clouds floats above a layer of titanium clouds in exoplanet LTT9779b’s atmosphere, creating a natural mirror that reflects 80 percent of the starlight that reaches it. In our own Solar System, even bright Venus reflects just 75 percent of the sunlight it catches. But the fact that it’s a mirror world isn’t even the strangest thing about LTT9779b, a world about the size of Neptune but nearly twice as massive that orbits its star once every 19 hours.

“Imagine a burning world, close to its star, with heavy clouds of metals floating aloft, raining down titanium droplets,” says Diego Portales University astronomer James Jenkins, a co-author on the paper published in Astronomy and Astrophysics Today, in a recent statement. FULL STORY from Inverse