"Rains Liquid Iron and Glass" --Hubble Reveals 1st Images of an Exoplanet Atmosphere

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at the University of Arizona have taken the first direct, time-resolved images of an exoplanet, a young, gaseous exoplanet known as 2M1207b, shown below, located some 160 light-years from Earth. The planet is four...