Rainbow-like ‘glory effect’ detected on planet outside our Solar System

Potential signs of the rainbow-like ‘glory effect’ have been detected on a planet outside our Solar System for the first time. Data from ESA’s sensitive Characterising ExOplanet Satellite, Cheops, along with other missions, suggest this phenomenon is beaming from ultra-hot gas giant WASP-76b, 637 light-years away. If confirmed, this first extrasolar glory will reveal more about the nature of this puzzling exoplanet, with exciting lessons for how to better understand strange, distant worlds.