The Cheops satellite detected the rainbow-like phenomenon on an exoplanet for the first time.
6b is a strange world. Located several hundred light-years away, the Jupiter-like planet is tidally locked to its star, has scorching temperatures, and rains molten iron. Recent observations of the hot gas giant reveal it may even have a rainbow-like optical phenomenon that’s only been observed on Earth and Venus.
6b weren’t weird enough. The exoplanet orbits a star that’s 50% more massive and 500 degrees Celsius hotter than the Sun. 6b. Due to the difference in temperature between the day and night side, iron melts on the planet’s day side and condenses into clouds when it reaches the darker, cooler night side. Choeps, or the Characterising ExOplanet Satellite, has been observing
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