Scientists just looked inside a truly sci-fi planet

The distant world WASP-121b is already bizarre. It's football-shaped and rains gems.Now, astronomers leveraged the power of four telescopes to observe what's transpiring deep inside this giant exoplanet's swirling atmosphere. They found never-before-seen activity."This planet’s atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge our understanding of how weather works — not just on Earth, but on all planets. It feels like something out of science fiction," Julia Victoria Seidel, a researcher at