The 10 Worst Places To Live In The Universe

And you thought 97 degrees F was bad.
Oh, it gets worse. NASA/ESA/G. Bacon/STScI

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Recently, we told you about an exoplanet that rains glass. Sideways. Which got us thinking: 1.) we will never complain about the weather here on Earth again and 2.) surely that’s got to be the worst place to live in the entire universe. But no! With the help of NASA and Kepler astronomers and a couple physicists, we found nine additional wildly inhospitable planets. Of course, you wouldn’t survive too well anywhere in the universe that isn’t Earth, but these places would be particularly awful–places with conditions “well-matched to Dante’s visions of hell,” as physicist Steve Tufte describes one of the planets. Check out the most miserable planets in the universe.

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