There Is a Planet Where It Rains Glass

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]There is a planet where it rains glass.

[00:00:02]Not metaphorically, actual glass raining from the sky. The planet is called HD189733b.

[00:00:10]Deep blue, kind of beautiful from a distance, looks almost like Earth, but the atmosphere is full of silicate particles, tiny shards of glass suspended in clouds. When they fall, they don't fall gently. [music] Winds hit 5,000 mph. The strongest hurricane on Earth was 215 mph. glass doesn't rain down, >> [music] >> it fires sideways, supersonic, in every direction. A permanent storm of glass shards moving faster than a bullet in 1,000° heat. It looks like Earth from space. Up close, [music] it's the closest thing to hell we've ever found, and there are billions of planets we haven't even looked at yet.