
Season 2 · Episode 19
Catch the (Alien) Rainbow
EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News · Pamela Gay
April 25, 202431m 0s
Show Notes
As scientists discover and explore the atmospheres of more and more planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, we are learning that if you can imagine it, it probably exists. In a new paper discussing the planet WASP-76b, researchers describe what appears to be a giant rainbow in the atmosphere of another world... a circular rainbow... and it's not caused by refracted starlight!