An artist’s illustration of a world that would be classified as a hot Jupiter. If you can be close enough to your parent star to super-heat a gas giant planet’s atmosphere, but massive enough to retain your gas envelope and rotate rapidly, you can obtain the fastest planetary wind speeds of all. Earth, and every world in our Solar System, just can’t compete. (ATG MEDIALAB, ESA)
Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster.
Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes.
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