{"id":144976,"date":"2022-08-27T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T23:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-discovered-a-beautiful-ocean-world-100-light-years-from-earth"},"modified":"2022-08-27T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T23:22:28","slug":"scientists-discovered-a-beautiful-ocean-world-100-light-years-from-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-discovered-a-beautiful-ocean-world-100-light-years-from-earth","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discovered a beautiful ocean world 100 light-years from Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AFs8-Zcli1U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a beautiful ocean world that looks like it was ripped out of the <em>Star Wars<\/em> prequels. The exoplanet TOI-1452 b was discovered just 100 light-years from Earth. A new paper on the discovery says that the entire planet is covered by a thick layer of water and that it\u2019s located far enough from its star to possibly support life.<\/p>\n<p>The ocean world was discovered by a team of researchers at the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nouvelles.umontreal.ca\/en\/article\/2022\/08\/24\/an-extrasolar-world-covered-in-water\/\">Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/a>. Charles Cadieux, the team leader, announced the discovery this week. Cadieux is also a member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx).<\/p>\n<p>The planet is just slightly greater in size and mass than Earth. While the fact that this exoplanet is covered in water is intriguing, it\u2019s also located a perfect distance out from its stars to not be too cold or hot. That means that it could potentially support life, though it\u2019s unclear what kind of life might thrive on an ocean world such as this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a beautiful ocean world that looks like it was ripped out of the Star Wars prequels. The exoplanet TOI-1452 b was discovered just 100 light-years from Earth. A new paper on the discovery says that the entire planet is covered by a thick layer of water and that it\u2019s located far enough [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144976","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}