"First-Ever Sighting of Rainbow-like 'Glory' on Scorching Exoplanet"

Astronomers have observed a rainbow-like "glory effect" on the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-76b, located 637 light-years from Earth, using the Cheops space telescope. This phenomenon, previously only seen on Venus, consists of concentric rings of light and suggests the presence of persistent clouds with perfectly spherical droplets in the planet's atmosphere. The intense heat and radiation from its host star have caused WASP-76b to puff up to nearly double the size of Jupiter, and the discovery could provide new insights into alien worlds.