Look up! It’s raining diamonds. Watch out! It’s snowing metal. Be careful! A black hole is ejecting fragments. Stand guard! Neptune’s moon is spitting lava! 

Space weather is wacky! 

Storms can last for centuries. Some even make space objects glow. Asteroids careen through raining glass shards. Lightning erupts without warning. Don’t blink! You might miss a weather phenomenon in space.

Raining diamonds—Rainy skies sparkle on Jupiter. How? Lightning turns methane gas into carbon. When carbon hardens, it turns into diamond. Diamonds don’t stay on the ground long. Jupiter’s heat melts them. 

Space storms last light-years—When a star dies, a storm says “good-bye.” Magnetized crystal storms cause a surface glow that can last for centuries.

Space “hail”—Asteroids are solid lumps of rock and metal. They pummel planets like giant space hail. 

Shocking storms—We’ve never seen anything like Neptune’s storms. They are the size of Earth! A storm takes years to form on that planet. But once a storm gets going, it will rage for two to six years. 

Spitting slices of glass—Exoplanet HD 189773B rains glass. Horizontal shards pour from the skies above the planet.

Like a giant sandstorm—Jupiter has enormous sandstorms. In fact, the planet’s Great Red Spot is the largest recorded space storm.

Predictable plasma—About once per week, the Sun’s plasma explodes. Sometimes these explosions are incredibly powerful. In 1882, a solar storm disrupted telegraph service. In 2016, an explosion interfered with radio transmissions on Earth. “And now the news . . . bzzzzfitsssspfuzzzzzz . . .”

Wind warning—Solar wind continuously flows outward from the Sun. Our super star’s wind is made up of protons and electrons in a plasma state.

Look out for lightning—Solar winds spark lightning strikes on Earth.

Black hole blasts—Material that shoots out of black holes is traveling at close to the speed of light. 

How’s the weather out there? You never know. But we do know who created it all.

Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the Earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! — Jeremiah 32:17