Wanna hear what the longest continuous thunderstorm in the solar system sounds like?

A team of astronomers has been studying a storm on Saturn that has been raging since — get this — January. (So if you’re planning on taking a trip to Saturn anytime soon, pack accordingly.) The storm is more than 1,800 miles in size, with lightning flashes 10,000 times stronger than those on Earth. That’s impressive.

… And in other news today, it’s worth noting that scientists have found the first rocky planet outside our own solar system. However, even though it may be Earthlike in the sense that it is a rocky planet (and not gaseous like, say, Jupiter or Saturn), it is also incredibly close to the star that it orbits. So close, in fact, that the typical daytime temperature is about 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit. Sheesh. Talk about global warming.

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