{"id":160816,"date":"2023-03-22T20:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-webb-telescope-is-so-powerful-it-spotted-a-dust-storm-on-a-planet-in-a-different-star-system"},"modified":"2023-03-22T20:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T01:22:38","slug":"the-webb-telescope-is-so-powerful-it-spotted-a-dust-storm-on-a-planet-in-a-different-star-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-webb-telescope-is-so-powerful-it-spotted-a-dust-storm-on-a-planet-in-a-different-star-system","title":{"rendered":"The Webb Telescope Is So Powerful, It Spotted a Dust Storm on a Planet in a Different Star System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-webb-telescope-is-so-powerful-it-spotted-a-dust-storm-on-a-planet-in-a-different-star-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, a dust storm has been observed outside of our Solar System \u2014 and naturally, it was the powerful James Webb Space Telescope that made the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/webbtelescope.org\/contents\/news-releases\/2023\/news-2023-105\" class=\"\">press release<\/a> on the Space Telescope Science Institute\u2019s Webb-site details the JWST-detected storm, which took place on exoplanet VHS 1,256 b, a \u201cmassive brown dwarf\u201d planet located about 40 lightyears from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEver had hot sand whip across your face?\u201d the press release quips. \u201cThat\u2019s a soothing experience compared to the volatile conditions discovered high in the atmosphere of planet VHS 1,256 b.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, a dust storm has been observed outside of our Solar System \u2014 and naturally, it was the powerful James Webb Space Telescope that made the discovery. A press release on the Space Telescope Science Institute\u2019s Webb-site details the JWST-detected storm, which took place on exoplanet VHS 1,256 b, a \u201cmassive [\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-160816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160816","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=160816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}