{"id":183962,"date":"2024-02-28T21:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T03:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/possibly-habitable-trappist-1-exoplanet-caught-destroying-its-own-atmosphere"},"modified":"2024-02-28T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T03:26:32","slug":"possibly-habitable-trappist-1-exoplanet-caught-destroying-its-own-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/possibly-habitable-trappist-1-exoplanet-caught-destroying-its-own-atmosphere","title":{"rendered":"Possibly habitable Trappist-1 exoplanet caught destroying its own atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/possibly-habitable-trappist-1-exoplanet-caught-destroying-its-own-atmosphere2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trappist-1e is the fourth planet from the red dwarf star at the heart of this fascinating planetary system of rocky worlds. Astronomers have previously discovered that <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/james-webb-space-telescope-no-atmosphere-trappist-1-exoplanet\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/james-webb-space-telescope-no-atmosphere-trappist-1-exoplanet\">Trappist-1b<\/a>, the closest exoplanet to the star, seems to have already lost its atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The team thinks voltage-driven Joule heating could also be impacting Trappist-1f and Trappist-1g, stripping them of their atmospheres as well, albeit to a lesser extent than they see happening with Trappist-1e. That\u2019s because, at 0.038 and 0.04683 times the distance between Earth and the sun from their star respectively, these planets are moving slower through the red dwarf\u2019s stellar winds than Trappist-1e is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCloser-in planets of Trappist-1 will have an even more extreme fate, and further out ones a bit milder,\u201d Garraffo said. \u201cI would imagine that all Trappist-1 planets are going to have a hard time holding on to any atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trappist-1e is the fourth planet from the red dwarf star at the heart of this fascinating planetary system of rocky worlds. Astronomers have previously discovered that Trappist-1b, the closest exoplanet to the star, seems to have already lost its atmosphere. The team thinks voltage-driven Joule heating could also be impacting Trappist-1f and Trappist-1g, stripping them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183962","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\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}