Elite Dangerous, cool planet 

Sadly I didn't get a screengrab, but I found a wild planet the other day.

Metallic world orbiting _really_ close to a B-class star. 22 earth masses and 5.2G surface gravity.

...also a silicate-iron atmosphere at 17 million atm pressure, and a surface temperature of just under 10,000K.

...it wasn't visibly rendered as such, but that's a massive boiling ball of slag.

Elite Dangerous, cool planet 

I don't actually know if a planet like that could exist for long without boiling away?

That's hotter than the surface of the sun.

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