{"id":145134,"date":"2022-08-29T20:23:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T01:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/this-newly-discovered-super-earth-may-be-an-ocean-planet-shrouded-in-the-deepest-of-seas"},"modified":"2022-08-29T20:23:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T01:23:28","slug":"this-newly-discovered-super-earth-may-be-an-ocean-planet-shrouded-in-the-deepest-of-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/this-newly-discovered-super-earth-may-be-an-ocean-planet-shrouded-in-the-deepest-of-seas","title":{"rendered":"This Newly Discovered Super-Earth May Be an Ocean Planet Shrouded in the Deepest of Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-newly-discovered-super-earth-may-be-an-ocean-planet-shrouded-in-the-deepest-of-seas2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, scientists announced that the James Webb Space Telescope, which among its many talents can analyze the atmospheres of exoplanets, just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/26\/science\/space\/webb-telescope-wasp-exoplanet.html\">confirmed the presence of carbon dioxide<\/a> on a world orbiting a sun some 700 light-years away. It\u2019s the first observation of CO2 in a planetary atmosphere beyond our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>But that discovery, made about a world very unlike our own, is just the first taste of what Webb\u2019s instruments may soon reveal. Astronomers are eager to focus the telescope on planets like Earth, where liquid water, a crucial ingredient for life as we know it, is abundant. In the coming months and years, they will undoubtedly get their chance.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of promising Earth-like planets Webb could study in the near future, but <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-3881\/ac7cea#ajac7ceas5\">in a paper published recently in <em>The Astronomical Journal<\/em><\/a>, scientists from the University of Montreal argue they\u2019ve discovered one of the best such candidates yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, scientists announced that the James Webb Space Telescope, which among its many talents can analyze the atmospheres of exoplanets, just confirmed the presence of carbon dioxide on a world orbiting a sun some 700 light-years away. It\u2019s the first observation of CO2 in a planetary atmosphere beyond our solar system. But that discovery, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145134","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}