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Clouds made of sand make for a strange kind of rain on this hot planet

On Earth, clouds and rain are made of water. But the James Webb Space Telescope has found that on a planet called WASP-107b, the rain and clouds are made of sand.

(Image credit: Klaas Verpoest, Johan Van Looveren, Leen Decin)

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