{"id":145720,"date":"2022-09-06T01:25:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T06:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/astronomers-discover-clouds-of-sand-in-the-atmosphere-of-a-failed-star"},"modified":"2022-09-06T01:25:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T06:25:44","slug":"astronomers-discover-clouds-of-sand-in-the-atmosphere-of-a-failed-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/astronomers-discover-clouds-of-sand-in-the-atmosphere-of-a-failed-star","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Discover Clouds of Sand In The Atmosphere of A Failed Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-clouds-of-sand-in-the-atmosphere-of-a-failed-star3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have given us direct confirmation that some alien worlds have clouds of rock.<\/p>\n<p>The telescope has directly detected silicate clouds in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf \u2013 the first time, according to an international team of astronomers, that such a detection has been made in a planetary-mass companion outside the Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>The complete findings, the team says, constitute the best spectrum yet for a planetary mass-object. These results could not only help us better understand these so-called \u2018failed stars\u2019, but represent just a foretaste of what the JWST can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have given us direct confirmation that some alien worlds have clouds of rock. The telescope has directly detected silicate clouds in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf \u2013 the first time, according to an international team of astronomers, that such a detection has been made in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145720","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}