The European Space Agency’s Cheops satellite picked up signs of the ‘glory effect’ on a planet outside the solar system for the first time, spotting colorful rings of light on WASP-76b.

The glory effect, hinted at in data from the European Space Agency's exoplanet-hunting mission Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS), is a rainbow-like arrangement of colorful, concentric ...

Another important aspect of this research is the exploration of the glory effect in photoionization. A study on strontium atoms showed that the presence of an external static electric field can ...