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Science News: Located about 637 light-years away, WASP-76 b was initially discovered in 2013 through the Wide Angle Search for Planets project. This planet, which o

The US Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have selected Stony Brook University Professor Kenneth Lanzetta, PhD, in the Department o

New data suggest that exoplanet WASP-76 b could harbor a massive, rainbow-colored light show known as a "glory." Until now, this phenomenon has been seen only within our solar system.

The Cheops satellite detected the rainbow-like phenomenon on an exoplanet for the first time.

For the first time, signs of the rainbow-like ‘glory effect’ have been detected on a planet outside our solar system. Glory are colourful concentric rings of light that occur only under peculiar conditions.Glory occurs when light is reflected off clo

Planetary sciences faculty experts and students from Washington University in St. Louis will view the solar eclipse from a site that will experience 4 minutes o

The atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-76b may rain iron and form a strange, rainbow-like phenomenon called a “glory” never yet seen outside the solar system

Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2024 - Data from Cheops and its friends suggest that between the unbearable heat and light of exoplanet WASP-76bs sunlit face, and the endless night of its dark side, may be the first extrasolar glory.

Comets are predominantly made of icy materials

Five planetary scientists from WashU’s McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences are available to speak with reporters from the path of totality for the Monday, April 8, solar eclipse. The scientists will be at Bollinger Mill State Historic Site in southern Missouri, near Cape Girardeau.