{"id":150917,"date":"2022-11-23T17:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T23:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-an-exoplanet-atmosphere-as-never-seen-before"},"modified":"2022-11-23T17:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T23:22:44","slug":"james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-an-exoplanet-atmosphere-as-never-seen-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-an-exoplanet-atmosphere-as-never-seen-before","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Space Telescope reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before"},"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\/cI-kM_wPbbQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just scored another first: a detailed molecular and chemical portrait of a distant world\u2019s skies.<\/p>\n<p>The telescope\u2019s array of highly sensitive instruments was trained on the atmosphere of a \u201chot Saturn\u201d\u2014a planet about as massive as Saturn orbiting a star some 700 light-years away\u2014known as WASP-39 b. While JWST and other space telescopes, including Hubble and Spitzer, have previously revealed isolated ingredients of this broiling planet\u2019s atmosphere, the new readings provide a full menu of atoms, molecules, and even signs of active chemistry and clouds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clarity of the signals from a number of different molecules in the data is remarkable,\u201d says Mercedes L\u00f3pez-Morales, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian and one of the scientists who contributed to the new results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just scored another first: a detailed molecular and chemical portrait of a distant world\u2019s skies. The telescope\u2019s array of highly sensitive instruments was trained on the atmosphere of a \u201chot Saturn\u201d\u2014a planet about as massive as Saturn orbiting a star some 700 light-years away\u2014known as WASP-39 b. While [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150917","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=150917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}