...another plotbunny. There's a planet 50 light years away, 55 Cancri e, that is on fire. Permanently on fire. It's larger than Earth, orbits a perfectly good star, and the day side is almost certainly oceans of lava. Probably tidally locked. Has a year that is a matter of days.
If it's tidally locked then one side will be a lava hell and the other cooler...but thanks to an atmosphere, not that cold.
If it does rotate, then each dawn would bring melting of the surface and rock vapor creating an atmosphere, and then rains of lava with the dusk.
I don't know how to use this in a story, but somebody needs to use it in a story.
The planet also names itself. Obviously it's Inferno. Or maybe Dante.
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