First 'glory' on hellish distant world

Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2024

Data from Cheops and its friends suggest that between the unbearable heat and light of exoplanet WASP-76b's sunlit face, and the endless night of its dark side, may be the first extrasolar 'glory'. The effect, similar to a rainbow, occurs when light is reflected off clouds made up of a perfectly uniform but so far unknown substance. "There's a reason no glory has been seen before outside o