{"id":151035,"date":"2022-11-24T20:24:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T02:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-data-on-hot-saturn-exoplanet-is-a-game-changer-scientists-say"},"modified":"2022-11-24T20:24:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T02:24:02","slug":"new-data-on-hot-saturn-exoplanet-is-a-game-changer-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-data-on-hot-saturn-exoplanet-is-a-game-changer-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"New data on \u2018hot Saturn\u2019 exoplanet is a \u2018game changer,\u2019 scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-data-on-hot-saturn-exoplanet-is-a-game-changer-scientists-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed molecular and chemical portrait of a faraway planet\u2019s skies,<a href=\"https:\/\/esawebb.org\/news\/weic2221\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\"> scoring another first<\/a> for the exoplanet science community.<\/p>\n<p>WASP-39b, otherwise known as Bocaprins, can be found orbiting a star some 700 light-years away. It is an exoplanet \u2014 a planet outside our solar system \u2014 as massive as Saturn but much closer to its host star, making for an estimated temperature of 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit (871 degrees Celsius) emitting from its gases, according to NASA. This \u201chot Saturn\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/esawebb.org\/news\/weic2213\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">was one of the first exoplanets that the Webb telescope examined<\/a> when it first began its regular science operations.<\/p>\n<p>The new readings provide a full breakdown of Bocaprins\u2019 atmosphere, including atoms, molecules, cloud formations (which appear to be broken up, rather than a single, uniform blanket as scientists previously expected) and even signs of photochemistry caused by its host star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed molecular and chemical portrait of a faraway planet\u2019s skies, scoring another first for the exoplanet science community. WASP-39b, otherwise known as Bocaprins, can be found orbiting a star some 700 light-years away. It is an exoplanet \u2014 a planet outside our solar system \u2014 as massive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151035","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\/151035","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=151035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}