{"id":190163,"date":"2024-05-26T16:28:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/webb-telescopes-breakthrough-first-atmospheric-discovery-on-a-rocky-super-earth"},"modified":"2024-05-26T16:28:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T21:28:44","slug":"webb-telescopes-breakthrough-first-atmospheric-discovery-on-a-rocky-super-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/webb-telescopes-breakthrough-first-atmospheric-discovery-on-a-rocky-super-earth","title":{"rendered":"Webb Telescope\u2019s Breakthrough: First Atmospheric Discovery on a Rocky Super-Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-telescopes-breakthrough-first-atmospheric-discovery-on-a-rocky-super-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gas bubbling up from a lava-covered surface on the exoplanet 55 Cancri e may feed an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Located a mere 41 light years from Earth, the exoplanet 55 Cancri e is so intensely hot that scientists once doubted its ability to sustain an atmosphere. However, a recent study conducted by a national team of scientists suggests 55 Cancri e may be the first rocky <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/astronomy-astrophysics-101-exoplanet\/\">exoplanet<\/a> confirmed to have an <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/astronomy-astrophysics-101-atmosphere\/\">atmosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <em><i>Nature<\/i><\/em>, the paper titled \u201cA Secondary Atmosphere on the Rocky Exoplanet 55 Cnc e\u201d was authored by researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/jpl\/\">NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/california-institute-of-technology\/\">California Institute of Technology<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-chicago\/\">University of Chicago<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-new-mexico\/\">University of New Mexico (UNM)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas bubbling up from a lava-covered surface on the exoplanet 55 Cancri e may feed an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide. Located a mere 41 light years from Earth, the exoplanet 55 Cancri e is so intensely hot that scientists once doubted its ability to sustain an atmosphere. However, a recent study [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190163","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}