"Alien Nightmare Raining Liquid Iron and Glass" --Hubble Space Telescope's 1st Direct Image of an Exoplanet

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