{"id":181177,"date":"2024-01-23T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-a-hot-saturn-and-its-spotted-star"},"modified":"2024-01-23T10:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:23:15","slug":"unlocking-the-secrets-of-a-hot-saturn-and-its-spotted-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-a-hot-saturn-and-its-spotted-star","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the Secrets of a \u2018Hot Saturn\u2019 and its Spotted Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-a-hot-saturn-and-its-spotted-star2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Led by researchers from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al\u2019s Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), a team of astronomers has harnessed the power of the revolutionary James Webb Space Webb Telescope (JWST) to study the \u201chot Saturn\u201d exoplanet HAT-P-18 b.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings, published last month in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, paint a complete picture of the HAT-P-18 b\u2019s atmosphere while exploring the great challenge of distinguishing its atmospheric signals from the activity of its star.<\/p>\n<p>HAT-P-18 b is located over 500 light-years away with a mass similar to Saturn\u2019s but a size closer to that the larger planet Jupiter. As a result, the exoplanet has a \u201cpuffed-up\u201d atmosphere that is especially ideal for analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led by researchers from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al\u2019s Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), a team of astronomers has harnessed the power of the revolutionary James Webb Space Webb Telescope (JWST) to study the \u201chot Saturn\u201d exoplanet HAT-P-18 b. Their findings, published last month in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, paint [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181177","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}