CHEOPS detects a ‘‘rainbow’’ on an exoplanet (IMAGE)

Université de Genève

CHEOPS detects a ‘‘rainbow’’ on an exoplanet

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Each glory is unique, depending on the composition of the planet’s atmosphere and the colours of the light from the star that illuminates it. WASP-76 (the «Sun» of WASP-76b) is a yellow and white main sequence star like our Sun, but different stars create glories with different colours and patterns. 

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© ESA, work performed by ATG under contract for ESA. CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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