{"id":187789,"date":"2024-04-21T06:01:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T11:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/how-stellar-magnetism-is-reshaping-our-view-of-distant-worlds"},"modified":"2024-04-21T06:01:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T11:01:30","slug":"how-stellar-magnetism-is-reshaping-our-view-of-distant-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/how-stellar-magnetism-is-reshaping-our-view-of-distant-worlds","title":{"rendered":"How Stellar Magnetism Is Reshaping Our View of Distant Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-stellar-magnetism-is-reshaping-our-view-of-distant-worlds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the brightness variations of its host star, an exoplanet \u2019s size and other properties can be determined. In order to avoid mistakes, the star\u2019s magnetic field is decisive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>700 light years away from Earth in the constellation Virgo, the planet WASP-39b orbits the star WASP-39. The gas giant, which takes little more than four days to complete one orbit, is one of the best-studied exoplanets.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after its commissioning in July 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/james-webb-space-telescope\/\">NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> turned its high-precision gaze on the distant planet. The <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/as-never-seen-before-nasas-webb-reveals-an-exoplanet-unlike-any-in-our-solar-system\/\">data revealed<\/a> evidence of large quantities of water vapor, of methane and even, for the first time, of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of WASP-39b. A minor sensation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the brightness variations of its host star, an exoplanet \u2019s size and other properties can be determined. In order to avoid mistakes, the star\u2019s magnetic field is decisive. 700 light years away from Earth in the constellation Virgo, the planet WASP-39b orbits the star WASP-39. The gas giant, which takes little more than four [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187789","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}