{"id":189782,"date":"2024-05-20T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-findings-on-wasp-107-b-challenge-assumptions-about-gas-giant-composition"},"modified":"2024-05-20T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:22:54","slug":"new-findings-on-wasp-107-b-challenge-assumptions-about-gas-giant-composition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-findings-on-wasp-107-b-challenge-assumptions-about-gas-giant-composition","title":{"rendered":"New Findings on WASP-107 b Challenge Assumptions About Gas Giant Composition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe planet has a hot core, and that heat source is changing the chemistry of the gases deeper down, but it\u2019s also driving this strong, convective mixing bubbling up from the interior,\u201d said Zafar Rustamkulov.<\/p>\n

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Gas giant planets within our solar system and exoplanets outside our solar system are known to possess large amounts of gas and small cores, but what if an exoplanet was found to exhibit opposite characteristics? This is what a study published today<\/a> in Nature<\/em> hopes to address as a team of international researchers investigated the physical and atmospheric characteristics<\/a> of WASP-107 b<\/a>, which is located just over 200 light-years from Earth and has been found to have unique interior characteristics compared to previously discovered exoplanets. These unique findings hold the potential to challenge our understanding of the formation and evolution of gas giant exoplanets, which continue to demonstrate stark contrasts to planets within our solar system.<\/p>\n

For the study, the researchers used NASA\u2019s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe WASP-107 b, discovering that while its radius is slightly less than Jupiter, its mass is only 10 percent of the largest planet in our solar system. Additionally, WASP-107 b possesses methane levels that are one thousand times less than what astronomers anticipated finding, along with having a core whose mass is 12 times larger than the Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe planet has a hot core, and that heat source is changing the chemistry of the gases deeper down, but it\u2019s also driving this strong, convective mixing bubbling up from the interior,\u201d said Zafar Rustamkulov. Gas giant planets within our solar system and exoplanets outside our solar system are known to possess large amounts of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189782","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\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}