{"id":134046,"date":"2022-01-14T11:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T19:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/the-early-suns-rings-stopped-our-planet-from-becoming-a-super-earth"},"modified":"2022-01-14T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T19:22:58","slug":"the-early-suns-rings-stopped-our-planet-from-becoming-a-super-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/the-early-suns-rings-stopped-our-planet-from-becoming-a-super-earth","title":{"rendered":"The Early Sun\u2019s Rings Stopped Our Planet from Becoming a \u2018Super-Earth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-early-suns-rings-stopped-our-planet-from-becoming-a-super-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sun was once surrounded by rings of gas and dust similar to those orbiting Saturn, a new study published in the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41550-021-01557-z\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">journal <em>Nature Astronomy<\/em><\/a> reveals.<\/p>\n<p>These rings played a vital role in the formation of our solar system and in the size and habitability of Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The early sun\u2019s dust and gas rings may have stopped our planet from becoming a \u201csuper-Earth,\u201d according to the Rice University astrophysicists behind the new paper. \u201cIn the solar system, something happened to prevent the Earth from growing to become a much larger type of terrestrial planet called a super-Earth,\u201d Rice University astrophysicist Andr\u00e9 Izidoro, said in <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/news.rice.edu\/news\/2022\/earth-isnt-super-because-sun-had-rings-planets\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a press statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun was once surrounded by rings of gas and dust similar to those orbiting Saturn, a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy reveals. These rings played a vital role in the formation of our solar system and in the size and habitability of Earth. The early sun\u2019s dust and gas rings may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134046","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=134046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}