An international group of scientists has found an exoplanet where it “rains iron.”

In an announcement, Spain’s Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) clarified that exoplanet WASP-76b has days when its temperatures surpass 2,400 degrees Celsius (4,352 degrees Fahrenheit), which is sufficiently hot to evaporate metals. “It’s nights, with strong winds, cool down the iron vapor so that it condenses into drops of iron,” investigators said in the release.

The exoplanet is found 390 light-years away, at the group of stars Pisces. A light-year, which estimates separation in space, rises to around 6 trillion miles.

The momentous conditions on WASP-76b were found utilizing the Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO). The high-goals instrument, which is co-coordinated by the IAC, is introduced on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile.

The research paper was published in the scientific journal Nature.

Researchers used ESPRESSO to distinguish chemical variations between night and day on WASP-76b, noticing that it was the first time when that such variations had been recognized in a giant “ultra-hot” planet. “However, surprisingly, we do not see this iron vapor at dawn,” said David Ehrenreich, a researcher at the University of Geneva and the paper’s first author, in the statement. “The only explanation possible for this phenomenon is that it rains iron on the dark side of this exoplanet with extreme conditions.”

Like Earth’s moon, WASP-76b is “tidally locked,” which implies that it keeps its equivalent face toward the object that it orbits.

“Just like the Moon around the Earth, this planet always keeps the same face towards its star as it rotates around it, which causes this extreme difference in temperature between day and night on the planet,” said Jonay I. González Hernández, a researcher at the IAC and part of the ESPRESSO science team, in the statement.

“Ultrahot giant planets are the best laboratories we have for studying extreme climates on exoplanets,” added Núria Casasayas Barris, a researcher at the IAC and doctoral student at the Spain’s University of La Laguna, in the statement. “If we observe an exoplanet during its transit across the disc of its star we can study the part of its atmosphere through which the light from the star passes. With ESPRESSO it has been possible to detect chemical variations using analysis of the small part of the atmosphere we can observe.”

In a separate project, astronomers, after a 40-year search, recently recognized a first-of-its-kind star that pulsates on only one side.

Amateur astronomers played a significant role in the disclosure by trawling through information from NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).