{"id":187601,"date":"2024-04-18T06:22:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T11:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/this-hellish-exoplanets-skies-rain-iron-and-create-a-rainbow-like-effect"},"modified":"2024-04-18T06:22:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T11:22:34","slug":"this-hellish-exoplanets-skies-rain-iron-and-create-a-rainbow-like-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/this-hellish-exoplanets-skies-rain-iron-and-create-a-rainbow-like-effect","title":{"rendered":"This hellish exoplanet\u2019s skies rain iron and create a rainbow-like effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-hellish-exoplanets-skies-rain-iron-and-create-a-rainbow-like-effect2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the effect is confirmed to be happening over WASP-76b, it could reveal a great deal about this strange and extreme exoplanet \u2014 a world unlike anything seen in our stellar domain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/exoplanet-hot-atmosphere-vaporized-rock\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/exoplanet-hot-atmosphere-vaporized-rock\">Ultra-hot exoplanet has an atmosphere of vaporized rock<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a reason no glory has been seen before outside our Solar System \u2013 it requires very peculiar conditions,\u201d Olivier Demangeon, team leader and an astronomer at the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences in Portugal, said in a statement. \u201cFirst, you need atmospheric particles that are close-to-perfectly spherical, completely uniform and stable enough to be observed over a long time. The planet\u2019s nearby star needs to shine directly at it, with the observer \u2014 here CHEOPS \u2014 at just the right orientation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the effect is confirmed to be happening over WASP-76b, it could reveal a great deal about this strange and extreme exoplanet \u2014 a world unlike anything seen in our stellar domain. Related: Ultra-hot exoplanet has an atmosphere of vaporized rock \u201cThere\u2019s a reason no glory has been seen before outside our Solar System \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}