{"id":129826,"date":"2021-11-02T02:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T09:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/hot-jupiter-planet-study-may-help-us-find-life-friendly-worlds"},"modified":"2021-11-02T02:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T09:23:32","slug":"hot-jupiter-planet-study-may-help-us-find-life-friendly-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/hot-jupiter-planet-study-may-help-us-find-life-friendly-worlds","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hot Jupiter\u2019 Planet Study May Help Us Find Life-Friendly Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hot-jupiter-planet-study-may-help-us-find-life-friendly-worlds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A huge gas giant\u2019s yield of water and carbon dioxide could one day help us understand the atmospheres of planets closer to the size of Earth, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>Telescopic observations of a \u201chot Jupiter\u201d gas giant, which is a huge planet hugging in close to its parent star, revealed the first-ever direct measurements of water and carbon monoxide in an exoplanet.<\/p>\n<p>The planet is too close to its star to host life as we know it, and far too large besides. But you can think of this study as a practice round, as measuring gas abundance in a larger planet will help with figuring out how to do so with much smaller planets that are potentially habitable \u2014 those that are closer to Earth\u2019s size and potentially able to host water on their surfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge gas giant\u2019s yield of water and carbon dioxide could one day help us understand the atmospheres of planets closer to the size of Earth, scientists say. Telescopic observations of a \u201chot Jupiter\u201d gas giant, which is a huge planet hugging in close to its parent star, revealed the first-ever direct measurements of water [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129826","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}