{"id":174495,"date":"2023-10-20T13:23:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/james-webb-shows-mysterious-sub-neptune-is-probably-a-water-world"},"modified":"2023-10-20T13:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:23:21","slug":"james-webb-shows-mysterious-sub-neptune-is-probably-a-water-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/james-webb-shows-mysterious-sub-neptune-is-probably-a-water-world","title":{"rendered":"James Webb shows mysterious \u201csub-Neptune\u201d is probably a water world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-webb-shows-mysterious-sub-neptune-is-probably-a-water-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea of a water world, a planet covered by water, has fascinated both scientists and artists for centuries. For scientists, a water world is a planet that has a great deal of water on its surface (or beneath the surface). Some studies have suggested that exoplanets with oceans are common <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2020\/are-planets-with-oceans-common-in-the-galaxy-it-s-likely-nasa-scientists-find\/\">in the Milky Way<\/a>, but we haven\u2019t really been able to find them.<\/p>\n<p>This is where GJ 1,214 b comes in.<\/p>\n<p>This planet (also called Gliese 1,214 b or <em>Enaiposha<\/em>) is 48 lightyears away from Earth. It\u2019s a \u201csub Neptune\u201d or \u201cmini Neptune.\u201d Mini Neptunes are a type of planet less massive than Neptune but resembling Neptune in general structure and in that they lack a thick hydrogen-helium atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of a water world, a planet covered by water, has fascinated both scientists and artists for centuries. For scientists, a water world is a planet that has a great deal of water on its surface (or beneath the surface). Some studies have suggested that exoplanets with oceans are common in the Milky Way, [\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-174495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174495","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=174495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}