{"id":116479,"date":"2020-11-30T18:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T02:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/art-meets-exoplanets-new-book-offers-window-onto-exo-worlds"},"modified":"2020-12-01T15:33:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T23:33:05","slug":"art-meets-exoplanets-new-book-offers-window-onto-exo-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/art-meets-exoplanets-new-book-offers-window-onto-exo-worlds","title":{"rendered":"Art Meets Exoplanets: New Book Offers Window Onto Exo-Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/art-meets-exoplanets-new-book-offers-window-onto-exo-worlds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shockingly, Carroll notes that if our own Earth had formed just one percent farther away from the Sun, it would have suffered a runaway glaciation. By contrast, one percent further in and Earth would have suffered a runaway greenhouse and the fate that befell present-day Venus. \u201cThe habitable zone is a planetary tightrope,\u201d writes Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>However, the book does cover the possibility that super-earths and\/or gas giant planets that lie in their parent stars\u2019 habitable zones might also harbor planet-sized moons. As the book notes, it\u2019s an idea that Hollywood director James Cameron\u2019s embraced in his ground-breaking movie \u201cAvatar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnvisioning Exoplanets\u201d also offers the reader capsule summaries of the various detection techniques that astronomers have used through the years to remotely explore and characterize these far-flung worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shockingly, Carroll notes that if our own Earth had formed just one percent farther away from the Sun, it would have suffered a runaway glaciation. By contrast, one percent further in and Earth would have suffered a runaway greenhouse and the fate that befell present-day Venus. \u201cThe habitable zone is a planetary tightrope,\u201d writes Carroll. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116513,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116479\/revisions\/116513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}