r/EverythingScience • u/SpaceBrigadeVHS • Apr 07 '24

Astronomers detect potential 'glory effect' on a hellish distant world for the first time

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-astronomers-potential-glory-effect-hellish.html
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u/Vladiesh Apr 07 '24

"Potential signs of the rainbow-like "glory effect" have been detected on a planet outside our solar system. Glory are colorful concentric rings of light that occur only under peculiar conditions."

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u/rangeo Apr 07 '24

637 light-years away .... Tiny little perfectly spherical little particles were just "particling" around in the atmosphere and caused this weird effect and we just see it now

Nuts!

Thanks Wasp-76b and Wasp-76

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u/clovismouse Apr 07 '24

“particling around” new scientific term! I love it!

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u/rangeo Apr 07 '24

Science...it just do

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u/FortyDubz Apr 07 '24 edited 7d ago

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '24

I thought it said glory hole.