{"id":144788,"date":"2022-08-25T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/nasas-webb-detects-carbon-dioxide-in-exoplanet-atmosphere"},"modified":"2022-08-25T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:24:08","slug":"nasas-webb-detects-carbon-dioxide-in-exoplanet-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/nasas-webb-detects-carbon-dioxide-in-exoplanet-atmosphere","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet Atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-webb-detects-carbon-dioxide-in-exoplanet-atmosphere2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a big step forward in understanding exoplanets.<\/p>\n<p>Humanity\u2019s giant space telescope has captured evidence of carbon dioxide in a planet outside of the solar system for the first time. According to a Thursday press release.<\/p>\n<p>The detection was made using Webb\u2019s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and took the form of a small bump between 4.1 and 4.6 microns on the spectrum related to the exoplanet\u2019s atmosphere. The evidence helps shine a light on how planets are formed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system. This observation of a gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star 700 light-years away provides important insights into the composition and formation of the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a big step forward in understanding exoplanets. Humanity\u2019s giant space telescope has captured evidence of carbon dioxide in a planet outside of the solar system for the first time. According to a Thursday press release. The detection was made using Webb\u2019s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and took the form of a small bump between 4.1 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144788","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=144788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}