Metallic Element Detected On Exoplanet For The First Time, Resembling Ozone

The Milky Way in the dark night sky with the illuminating stars, part of the galaxy that contains our Solar System as seen from a sandy beach in Halkidiki, Greece, on August 2020. On a hellish planet where liquid iron rains, a molecule resembling ozone has been found in the atmosphere. NICOLAS ECONOMOU/NURPHOTO/GETTYIMAGES

An ozone-like chemical has been detected in the atmosphere of a hellish planet where it rains liquid iron.

The alien world is shrouded in thick clouds that interact with the light of its parent star – creating vanadium oxide.