As The 'Super-Jupiter' Turns: Hubble Observes Rotation Of Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron And Glass
At a distance of 170 light-years from Earth, there's a planet seven times the mass of Jupiter where it rains glass at higher altitudes and iron at lower levels, according to NASA. The Hubble Space Telescope directly observed changes in brightness of the "super-Jupiter" orbiting a brown dwarf, the results of which were published Thursday.