{"id":125652,"date":"2021-07-29T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T05:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/a-very-exciting-unique-exoplanet-has-more-water-than-earth"},"modified":"2021-07-29T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T05:22:58","slug":"a-very-exciting-unique-exoplanet-has-more-water-than-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/a-very-exciting-unique-exoplanet-has-more-water-than-earth","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Very Exciting\u2019 unique exoplanet has more water than earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-very-exciting-unique-exoplanet-has-more-water-than-earth3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CHEOPS satellite accidentally spotted a rare exoplanet with no known equivalent. The satellite detected this unique exoplanet while looking for two exoplanets in a bright nearby star system.<\/p>\n<p>This planet called \u2018Nu2 Lupi d\u2019 is located 50 light-years away in the constellation Lupus (Latin for Wolf), around a star called Nu2 Lupi. It is about 2.5 times the size of Earth and almost 9 times its mass.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, scientists used measurements with archival data from other observatories and numerical models to characterize the density and composition of the planet and its neighbors. They found that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/formation-of-new-atmosphere-observed-on-a-rocky-exoplanet\/38251\/\">planet has a rocky interior<\/a>. It has far more water than the Earth. However, the water is not liquid; instead of taking high-pressure ice or high-temperature steam, making the planets uninhabitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CHEOPS satellite accidentally spotted a rare exoplanet with no known equivalent. The satellite detected this unique exoplanet while looking for two exoplanets in a bright nearby star system. This planet called \u2018Nu2 Lupi d\u2019 is located 50 light-years away in the constellation Lupus (Latin for Wolf), around a star called Nu2 Lupi. It is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125652","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}