{"id":191995,"date":"2024-06-28T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/toi-1685-b-is-a-hot-and-rocky-super-earth-exoplanet-observations-find"},"modified":"2024-06-28T10:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:22:41","slug":"toi-1685-b-is-a-hot-and-rocky-super-earth-exoplanet-observations-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/toi-1685-b-is-a-hot-and-rocky-super-earth-exoplanet-observations-find","title":{"rendered":"TOI-1685 b is a Hot and Rocky Super-Earth Exoplanet, Observations find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toi-1685-b-is-a-hot-and-rocky-super-earth-exoplanet-observations-find3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers has performed follow-up observations of a nearby alien world known as TOI-1685 b. Results of the observations, published May 21 on the pre-print server arXiv, indicate that TOI-1685 b is a hot and rocky alien world with an Earth-like density.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201csuper-Earths\u201d are planets more massive than Earth but not exceeding the mass of Neptune. Although the term \u201csuper-Earth\u201d refers only to the mass of the planet, it is also used by astronomers to describe planets bigger than Earth but smaller than the so-called \u201cmini-Neptunes\u201d (with a radius between two to four Earth radii).<\/p>\n<p>Discovered in 2021, TOI-1685 b is an ultra-short-period (USP) super-Earth orbiting an M-dwarf star about half the size and mass of the sun. The system is located some 122.5 light years away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers has performed follow-up observations of a nearby alien world known as TOI-1685 b. Results of the observations, published May 21 on the pre-print server arXiv, indicate that TOI-1685 b is a hot and rocky alien world with an Earth-like density. The so-called \u201csuper-Earths\u201d are planets more massive than Earth but [\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-191995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191995","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=191995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}