CHEOPS detects a "rainbow" on an exoplanet

The European space telescope CHEOPS, whose scientific operations center is based at the University of Geneva, has detected a kind of gigantic rainbow on the WASP-76b exoplanet. This peculiarity is thought to be due to a "glory", a luminous phenomenon that occurs if the light from the star - the "sun" around which the exoplanet orbits - is reflected by clouds made up of a perfectly uniform substance.