An exoplanet is wrapped in glory

When looking down on a cloud from an aeroplane, you can sometimes spot an iridescent aura surrounding the plane’s shadow. It is a ‘glory’, a phenomenon reminiscent of a rainbow but arising through a different mechanism. Astronomers could now have made the first sighting of a glory outside the Solar System¹.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01032-5

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