{"id":193016,"date":"2024-07-16T01:23:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T06:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/using-the-webb-telescope-scientists-may-have-found-the-best-bet-for-an-ocean-world-outside-our-solar-system"},"modified":"2024-07-16T01:23:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T06:23:47","slug":"using-the-webb-telescope-scientists-may-have-found-the-best-bet-for-an-ocean-world-outside-our-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/using-the-webb-telescope-scientists-may-have-found-the-best-bet-for-an-ocean-world-outside-our-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Using the Webb telescope, scientists may have found the \u2018best bet\u2019 for an ocean world outside our solar system!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-the-webb-telescope-scientists-may-have-found-the-best-bet-for-an-ocean-world-outside-our-solar-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lead study author Charles Cadieux, a PhD student at the University of Montreal, remarked that among all known temperate exoplanets, LHS 1,140 b is possibly the most promising candidate for confirming liquid water on the surface of an alien world.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 10 to 20 percent of the exoplanet\u2019s mass is estimated to be water. In stark contrast, Earth\u2019s oceans account for a mere 0.02 percent of its mass. The state of this water, whether liquid or ice, hinges on the planet\u2019s atmospheric composition, with gases like carbon dioxide playing a crucial role.<\/p>\n<p>One encouraging factor is the planet\u2019s gentle warming by its red dwarf star, which is only one-fifth the size of our Sun. This stellar relationship suggests that the exoplanet\u2019s surface temperature is likely comparable to that of Earth and Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead study author Charles Cadieux, a PhD student at the University of Montreal, remarked that among all known temperate exoplanets, LHS 1,140 b is possibly the most promising candidate for confirming liquid water on the surface of an alien world. Approximately 10 to 20 percent of the exoplanet\u2019s mass is estimated to be water. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193016","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=193016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}